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Because for every luxury brand outpost on Madison Avenue, there’s a small business that specializes in dollhouse furniture or German meats or food and drink books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
The two accompanied one another as they walked through bookcases filled with leather-bound volumes, before inspecting some of the miniatures made especially for the world's largest dollhouse.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025
A crabitat is kind of like a dollhouse with living inhabitants, each with a distinct personality.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025
Through their stories, “Squid Game 2” becomes a life-sized dollhouse collection of the modern era’s destructive vanities.
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2024
The dollhouse had two teeny wooden rockers with a little doll sitting in each: one with light brown hair like mine, and the other with pitch-black hair like Mom’s.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
Morrison said the agency found that some aftermarket inflaters have been brought into the country stuffed inside items like toys and dollhouses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The color was akin to the old dollhouses, Polly Pocket outfits and fashion accessories I used to play with in my youth.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024
Hooper says dollhouses started off as display cases and didn’t become associated with toys until they were mass produced after World War II.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
Despite the gathering touting itself as “the World’s No. 1 Dollhouse Miniatures Show,” there aren’t many actual dollhouses.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2023
By the fourth floor, things are piled everywhere, in the rooms and corridors and along the staircase: baskets of what must be machine parts, shoe boxes loaded with screws, antique dollhouses built by her great-grandfather.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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