doohickey

But what happens when one of your articles goes viral — not for its content but rather for how an AI doohickey swallowed up what you wrote and upchucked a controversial summation?

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025

For the hard-to-reach places — the flower beds and under the azaleas — he has a little handheld doohickey, like a garden center jack-in-box.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2022

Even if it’s a doohickey without any particular monetary value.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2021

Soon, I’m sure, it’ll implant some doohickey that monitors my sleeping while subliminally selling some stupid snoring-control device.

From Forbes ● Jun. 18, 2014

To activate widget A, doohickey B is inserted into slot C. If the one trying to activate the silly thing is you, make you the subject.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

For years, as an early-warning alert system, the county agricultural people had been hanging Medfly traps hither and thither among our pretty, fructiferous trees — little A-frame-shaped cardboard doohickeys with a dab of fly attractant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024

Perhaps they also should have visited Barcelona, Spain—where Mayor Ada Colau has figured out how to make it, not with press conferences and doohickeys but with bold moves and smart governing.

From Slate ● May 22, 2023

It’s one of those little mechanical doohickeys where you push it in, then it pops out.

From The Verge ● Mar. 29, 2022

Best-case scenario: The twins would be delivered six weeks early and live in a box with gadgets and doohickeys connected to their bodies for the first few weeks or months of their lives.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2013

Little plastic doohickeys and thingamabobs cover many surfaces.

From New York Times ● May 13, 2011