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- noun a person who
entertains with, oroperates puppets ; apuppeteer - noun by extension a person who controls other people (as if they were puppets)
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Examples
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Does that point too cleanly, too neatly, back to the author as a kind of puppetmaster?
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This is Not a Game, is the designer or 'puppetmaster' of such an ARG, and millions of players worldwide revel in the challenging and highly believable scenarios she creates.
www.orbitbooks.net Anna Gregson 2009
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After the hacking scandal, Murdoch is no longer the puppetmaster who determines the fate of nations but just a tired old man – who isn't even a tired old Englishman.
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This new antagonist quickly establishes himself as a puppetmaster, manipulating several of the characters in Batman's life -- good and bad -- in order to make Batman's life a living hell.
Getting Graphic: "Batman: Hush" Volumes 1 & 2 by Jeph Loeb 2009
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I say Congressional Term Limits are the best defense against greedy politicians and their puppetmaster corporations.
GOP challenging constitutionality of health bill mandate 2009
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Not only to people bring their own interpretation, the characters themselves bring their own story, one they are often precious about and I am the puppet rather than the puppetmaster.
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His Mick Haller doesn't game the system and he's not a puppetmaster - just a guy who knows which strings to pull or buttons to push at key moments, though the outcome is never assured.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Lincoln Lawyer Marshall Fine 2011
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This new antagonist quickly establishes himself as a puppetmaster, manipulating several of the characters in Batman's life -- good and bad -- in order to make Batman's life a living hell.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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It requires an enormous suspension of disbelief to believe that any money that passes through the hands of government at any level will do so without becoming entangled in the strings of the puppetmaster.
Libertarian Manifesto, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Still a mystery: What's in it for the puppetmaster?
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