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
But Wearing does something startling: She gets the mother to ventriloquize the boys and the boys their mother.
From Washington Post
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
It’s energizing to read a book about tech philosophy aimed at thinkers in beater cars and not thought leaders in Teslas, and certainly not aspiring “founders,” the runaways and dropouts who study Andreessen’s essays chiefly to ventriloquize them in PowerPoint investor decks.
From New York Times
Julius was played by a wooden dummy that Leonard failed to ventriloquize.
From New York Times
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