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
To engage in krivlyanya, the noun form of krivlyatsa, means to be artificial—to ventriloquize someone else instead of being yourself.
From Slate • Jun. 2, 2017
And then he would ventriloquize once more to himself.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
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