Sentence examples for as a dummy from inspiring English sources

For this analysis, ancestry was encoded as a dummy variable (see Hardy 1993; Cohen et al. 2003).

Throughout the act, Worsley stood silently by, mute as a dummy.

"History will remember you as a dummy who put himself at the service of the … interventionist policies of Donald Trump.

Indeed, he paid his boss to be listed as a dummy worker so that he could leave his work site.

DUAL is built-in relation in Oracle which serves as a dummy relation to put in the FROM clause when nothing else is appropriate.

As a picture book author, I present my ideas to the publisher as a dummy book, words and pictures together, like a book.

Tooling may be as simple as a special set of bearings, to as complex as a dummy engine rotor with windage shroud and special drive adopter.

The temptation is to dismiss Melania as a dummy, a compliant figure remarkable less for her personality than for her proportions.

In four hearts, declarer should attack clubs, hoping to obtain a discard for his diamond or spade loser and retaining the heart king as a dummy entry.

For the last 10 years of his life, he worked as a dummy patient in doctors' training in London hospitals, work he enjoyed and which paid the rent.

SEX= Sex of student, measured as a dummy (1 for male and 0 for female).