puppeteer

Yet, even as he stares down the barrel of a gun, he harbors the delusional hope that he can puppeteer this relationship back to life.

They discovered that the length of the rods between the puppeteer and the puppet resulted in small, unpredictable variations in the way the fictional quadruped moved.

Drive down the roads, and you can see billboards plastered in cities like Green Bay and Madison that read "don't let Elon buy our court" and depict the SpaceX and Tesla boss as a puppeteer.

And those people are the puppeteers for the people below who have to run around doing their will.

“They are simply doing the bidding of their wealthy donors and puppeteers.”