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ventriloquize

verb

  1. to use or practise ventriloquism
  2. to utter in the manner of a ventriloquist
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Wiktionary

verb

Etymology: From ventriloquy + -ize.

  1. To practice ventriloquism.
  2. To speak the words of (another person), as though by ventriloquism.

    Ms. Seltzer has talked about being “torn,” about wanting somehow to ventriloquize her subjects, to “put a voice to people who people don’t listen to.” Ms. De Wael has similarly referred to a longing to be part of the group to which she did not, emphatically, belong: “I felt different.