to ventriloquize

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• The way in which Magdalena's words are ventriloquized through the king demonstrates how closely her life was entwined with that of the royal family.

  Academic text (2010)

• And here I'm going to both vent and ventriloquise, OK?

• "Better many voices speak at once and we learn how to listen than allow only one voice to ventriloquize our own love song back to us."

  Academic text (1997)

• Similarly, Noel Bastable learns to deviate from rather than simply ventriloquize the voices that influence his own work.

  Academic text (2001)

• Act II, scene i shows Orgon trying to "ventriloquize" his daughter, to make her a creature of his will whose very speech is an instrument of Orgon's own discourse.

  Academic text (1990)

• Within in-flight cinema, the image does not speak but can only be ventriloquized by the passenger, making the passenger an active creator within the cinematic apparatus.

  Academic text (2016)

• Wolfe has written much of the novel in free-indirect style (or close third person), traditionally a method that opens up the interiority of the character it ventriloquizes.

  Blog text (28)

• This cannot be allowed to stand, and we quickly construct more coherent theories, or perhaps ventriloquize a meaning through selected sayings of Heraclitus, a meaning less insolent to our more univocal measures of determinate argumentation.

  Academic text (2017)

• The comedian can ventriloquize perfectly, making it sound like the puppet is speaking on its own.

• During the show, the magician ventriloquized a hilarious script that had the audience roaring with laughter.

How Distant

projection

1 4.5

to ventriloquize

9.9

to speak

∞ 1.0

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