Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Puppet King: As revealed in chapter 4, several other Order users intend to make Eiji a figurehead and Take Over the World under his nominal leadership.
Source: Manga / Big Order -
Subverted in Fables: The Adversary appears to be a huge, armored warrior, but the real Adversary is little old Geppetto, and the nominal Emperor the public sees is his literal puppet.
Source: Large and in Charge - Vincent Mercator later does this several different ways — first, after the Military Coup he engineers following the chaos of the Global War, he has his nominal superior Field Marshal Garcia rule as a Puppet King.
Source: Just the First Citizen
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Puppet and Nominal. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/nominal/puppet
Nominal & Puppet. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/nominal/puppet>.
Puppet or Nominal. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/nominal/puppet.
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