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They are digitally inserted into dream tableaux — floating in a bed surrounded by giant rubber duckies, piloting a barrel with feet toward a parrot in a cowboy boot.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2024

A Stormtrooper action figure, a racing Sonic the Hedgehog, Legos and rubber duckies.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2023

I bumped into a cardboard cutout of the billionaire businessman at Gorat’s steakhouse and counted several rubber duckies wearing his signature spectacles at Hollywood Candy.

From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2017

Sometimes, accidental spills from container ships carrying everything from tennis shoes to rubber duckies to millions of ocean-themed Lego pieces provide an inadvertent means of tracking ocean currents.

From National Geographic • Aug. 25, 2015

I sang through All the little duckies in my head.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys