Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The master or manager of a puppet-show.
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Examples
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Marty is a would-be puppet-master who wants to seek out your pressure points in order to manipulate you to his will.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Neither Tea Nor Sympathy. Tallulah Morehead 2010
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Marty is a would-be puppet-master who wants to seek out your pressure points in order to manipulate you to his will.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Neither Tea Nor Sympathy. Tallulah Morehead 2010
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For all its claims to atheism and rationalism, this pilot and puppet-master is the same metaphysical conceit as the soul, Stoic or Catholic.
Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Marty is a would-be puppet-master who wants to seek out your pressure points in order to manipulate you to his will.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Neither Tea Nor Sympathy. Tallulah Morehead 2010
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Even Cameron the Craven was seeking desperately to disentangle his strings from the puppet-master's grip.
Julian Kossoff: Rupert Murdoch, News Corp and the War of the Worlds Julian Kossoff 2011
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I have a great deal of fun doing this, as the writer you are the puppet-master and can control everything.
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Denounced by critics as the "puppet-master," he was legendary for his manipulative political savvy.
Putin Criticizes Opponents, Sticks to Hard Line Gregory L. White 2011
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August 31st, 2009 1: 39 pm ET if cheney believes that the president is the chief law enforcement officer in the land, then he should know that as chief, he needs to be held to the absolute highest standards in terms of his own adherence to the laws. he doesn't get to break them just because the puppet-master wants him to. staci
Cheney wrong on interrogation inquiry facts, Obama official says 2009
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If he has to choose between being depicted as the puppet of the Tories or the puppet-master, the Lib Dem leader would much rather be seen as the man holding the strings than the man dangling from them.
Stroppy Tories seem to have forgotten they didn't actually win | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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Marty is a would-be puppet-master who wants to seek out your pressure points in order to manipulate you to his will.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Neither Tea Nor Sympathy. Tallulah Morehead 2010
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