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Example sentences for: patsies

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Poor Mexican street fighters are brought to the United States by unscrupulous promoters to serve as patsies for American boxers.
What was Soviet Central Asia is now a free-fire zone: Drug, mineral, and arms barons compete for power, while legitimate governments of the region are patsies by comparison.
If I were running the moribund Hard Rock Cafe, here's what I'd want to observe about Chinese life: restaurants + oppression = potential theme restaurants, and a magnet for investments from the usual crowd of Hollywood patsies.