Russian doll
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I have no doubt some viewers will experience "Asteroid City" as a maddening Russian doll nested with clever but pointless gags, or as arbitrary and formless.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2023
“He’s like a weighted Russian doll; he gets knocked over and he just rolls back upright again,” Mr. Tesch said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2023
It’s like a Russian doll... but for video games.
From The Verge ● Jun. 8, 2022
The whole edifice was built up like a Russian doll.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2021
Is “Russian Doll” a Russian doll — those increasingly smaller wooden figures that nest one inside another — past the fact that Nadia is Russian and, relatively speaking, doll-size?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2019
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