ventriloquize
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of ventriloquize
1835–45; ventriloqu(y) ( def. ) + -ize
Example Sentences
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Or I can try to sort of ventriloquize through what I think a prose writer would do.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2023
But Wearing does something startling: She gets the mother to ventriloquize the boys and the boys their mother.
From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022
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 • Dec. 7, 2021
Before a kid can read or write, message tees provide an opportunity for a parent to ventriloquize at whim.
From Slate • Aug. 31, 2018
Perry rapped on the chain-box and inquired if anybody was within, and nobody answering, he had to ventriloquize a negative.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 by Various
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