Russian doll
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Showcasing an all-star cast that features Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Dev Patel, Ben Kingsley and Richard Oyoade, it’s a whimsical, obsessively designed miniature epic with a Russian doll structure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
According to Kelly Goldsmith, the E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Marketing at Vanderbilt University, McDonald's and Cactus Plant Flea Market essentially created collector bait through their "veritable Russian doll of scarcity marketing tactics."
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022
It’s one of the many meta moments in “Magpie Murders,” a Russian doll murder mystery that sets a 1950s fictional detective story inside a contemporary inquiry into the death of the author who wrote it.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
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
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