gimmick
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Manufactured in Los Angeles, they first appeared on the highways of North America in the early 1960s as an advertising gimmick, often promoting car lots or car parts.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Nevertheless, do the investors in the purchasing fund realize that its returns are artificially boosted by an accounting gimmick instead of investing expertise?
From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026
One comic gimmick involves Appa’s superhuman grip that can subdue even the mightiest of men.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
A statement said: "Utterly destroying HG Wells' classic novel, director Rich Lee... chose a goofy gimmick, hack dialogue, and a particularly hilarious performance by its lead, Ice Cube, to seize 2025's biggest number of statues."
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
Thoroughly worried, I went back to my desk hoping that some gimmick might emerge to salvage the like-with-like idea.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
Vocabulary lists containing gimmick
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney
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The Lemonade War
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