Definition of "ventriloquize" []

• To practice ventriloquism. (verb-intransitive)

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• "No historian has a privileged antenna to the past, and it would be disingenuous to claim that we can ventriloquize for these women in the absence of their own voices and other pieces of their lives."
• "As Kant was to write, however, as if to ventriloquize Locke's own anxiety about the "violence" (Essay 2: 161) of the mind's tendency to find alternate paths of cognition, "The point of excess for the imagination ... is like an abyss in which it fears to lose itself""
• "They can ventriloquize as anthropologists, report as journalists; they can confess, philosophize, they can leer as pornographers, or become as wide-eyed as children."