"ventriloquial" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 125",
          "text": "Her voice came, muffled, as if from the back of the top of his head. The ventriloquial effect was startling.",
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          "ref": "2001 June 1, Jay Kirk, “Preachin' Puppets”, in Chicago Reader",
          "text": "Learn the ventriloquial alphabet: A C D E G H I J K L N O Q R S T U X Z",
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        "Of or relating to ventriloquy."
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          "ref": "1915, William J. Locke, Jaffery",
          "text": "He threw half-crowns up into the air until they disappeared into the central blue, and then held a ventriloquial conversation, not in the best of taste, with the celestial spirits, who having caught the coins announced their intention of sticking to them.",
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        "Spoken to oneself."
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          "ref": "2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 246",
          "text": "We tried this a couple of times with no luck whatsoever, partly because whipbirds are notoriously ventriloquial and we could never agree on where the call was coming from.",
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        "Of bird vocalisations, sounding as though emanating from a location other than where the vocalising bird is."
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