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puppeteered

puppeteered is the simple past and past participle of puppeteer.

Meaning of puppeteer

Verb

puppeteer (third-person singular simple present puppeteers, present participle puppeteering, simple past and past participle puppeteered)

  1. (transitive) To control (a puppet).
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To control (an event, person, or organization) from behind the scenes.

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Questions about puppeteered

What is puppeteered the simple past and past participle of?
Puppeteered is the simple past and past participle of puppeteer.

Words near puppeteered in the dictionary

  1. puppet-show
  2. puppet-shows
  3. puppetdom
  4. puppeted
  5. puppeteer
  6. puppeteered
  7. puppeteering
  8. puppeteers
  9. puppethood
  10. puppeting
  11. puppetish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: puppeteered (page history and authors); puppeteer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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