ventriloquize
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of ventriloquize
1835–45; ventriloqu(y) ( def. ) + -ize
Example Sentences
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They are now desperately seeking to borrow or ventriloquize just enough of the far-right agenda to win elections without going all the way to blood-and-soil racism or entirely shredding the social contract.
From Salon
Or I can try to sort of ventriloquize through what I think a prose writer would do.
From Salon
But Wearing does something startling: She gets the mother to ventriloquize the boys and the boys their mother.
From Washington Post
In 2020, Gaetz would go on to ventriloquize Trump's baseless claim that the presidential election was "stolen" by dint of widespread fraud.
From Salon
Why not experiment, mess around a little, throw your voice, ventriloquize, pick up one form and put it down and move on to another?
From New York Times
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