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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are dummy" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to describe something as being a placeholder or not serious, but it lacks proper grammatical structure.
Example: "The instructions provided are dummy and should not be followed."
Alternatives: "are placeholders" or "are not serious".
Dictionary
are dummy
noun
A silent person; a person who does not talk.
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Imagine that you are dummy on another deal and have three minutes to exercise your brain.
Jets quarterback Chad Pennington says he thinks many of Manning's machinations this season are dummy audibles.
The values "1" and "−1" are dummy values with no specific meaning.
In several current large-scale assessment programs missing observations on background variables are dummy coded, and subsequently, dummy codes are used additionally in the PV imputation model.
where t is a time trend and CD i are dummy variables taking on a value of one for country i and zero otherwise.
Finally, intervention variables d j,t are dummy (indicator) variables that are used to capture structural breaks or outlying (irregular) observations.
All these technology characteristics related variables are dummy variables taking the value 1 if the farmer perceives so about the MVs and 0 if not.
The resulted e n′ is incident to γ vertices, where γ−2 of them are dummy vertices only incident by e n′.
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The only people who would believe in him are dummies.
In the front are dummies of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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