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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a puppet of a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is controlled or manipulated by another person or entity.
Example: "He felt like a puppet of a larger organization, unable to make decisions on his own."
Alternatives: "a tool of" or "a pawn of".
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But sympathy does not reduce him to a puppet of a domestic lobby.
For the musical "Juan Darien," Ms. Taymor designed a puppet of a hooded man tethered to a skeleton that he is walking behind.
The anticipation of the Mueller report dangled the carrot of the idea that President Trump was entirely foreign to U.S. politics, a puppet of a hostile power and not an American phenomenon.
The Russian-collusion story dangled the carrot of the idea that Trump was entirely foreign to U.S. politics, a puppet of a hostile power and not a fully American phenomenon.
If you pressed the red button during the final, you could hear the stars of CBBC – two men, a woman and a puppet of a dog – attempt to keep up with the match.
And if Steve McClaren was, in far too many ways, a puppet of a rigid club hierarchy overseen by Mike Ashley, the owner, the former England coach's successor has already made it subtly clear that he intends to be the man doing the dictating.
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He loves his puppets, but in one of his shows he dismembers a puppet of Rinaldo, a crusader hero.
Mr Bainimarama has lambasted its secretary-general, a Samoan, as a "puppet" of Australia and New Zealand.
Fundamentalists decried him as a puppet of the West, a traitor to Islam.
Trump doesn't need to be a puppet of Putin to be a dangerous President.
So why has he been prepared to be such a puppet of such a rightwing American administration?
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