Thesaurus results for MANNEQUIN

mannequin

noun

ˈma-ni-kən

Definition of mannequin

as in doll

a three-dimensional representation of the human body used especially for displaying clothes the mannequin over there looks so real

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as in model

a person who poses with or wears merchandise (as clothes) often for pictorial advertising mannequins striding down the catwalk in the designer's spring collection

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Recent Examples of mannequin Inside, mannequins dressed in different looks from the collection were interspersed around the bookstore’s 7,000-square-foot space. — Donna Kim, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2026 Milena Canonero’s Oscar-winning costumes dress mannequins modeled on Kirsten Dunst and Jason Schwartzman, positioned beneath historical portraits and busts in the very rooms where the real figures once danced and broke bread. — Ben Croll, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026 The car served as a test payload on the rocket's second stage, with a mannequin in a spacesuit in the driver's seat. — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 14 Sep. 2026 Transportation Security Administration officers screen those while the flyer spreads their arms out mannequin-style inside a body scanner. — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mannequin

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Objects on display range from the very small—a Palladian-style, mahogany doll’s house from the seventeen-twenties—to the very large.

— Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Pull some treats from the open coffin at Scotto Funeral Home, on the corner of Court Street and 2nd Place, then head to President near Hoyt to gawk at bloodstained windows and mutilated dolls.

— Fiorella Valdesolo, Curbed, 21 Oct. 2026

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Next, the researchers developed a simplified model that reproduced the observed rotation and current increase.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
The vicious cycle of the current model, of course, is that to become marketable a team needs to get and retain good players, and to do that a school has to spend money, which cycles the whole thing back to the start.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

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Woolmark’s research summary describes tests using sweating manikins and human participants to compare wool, cotton, viscose and polyester garments of similar weight and thickness.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026
The facility was designed to look like a hospital, with an emergency room, intensive care unit, operating rooms, a delivery room complete with mother and child manikins, an intensive care unit and a hospital room.

— Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026

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