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gizmo

[giz-moh] / ˈgɪz moʊ /


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Or one of those fidget gizmo things that stores sell in the checkout line.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

There have been high-intensity sessions on a vertical cardio climber - a full-body workout gizmo which developers say is "one of the most effective and efficient ways of burning fat and calories".

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2025

Comedy and tragedy customarily share space in “Star Trek” — “Section 31” begins with a quote from Aeschylus and includes an extended discussion over whether the gizmo they’re after is called “Godsend” or “God’s End.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025

De Jaen crouches to fiddle with alligator clips and bits of wire, as well as six 100-watt light bulbs and a purple gizmo that looks like an electric waffle iron designed for children.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

Hey, Paine, can you take a bath with that ankle gizmo, or would you get all electrocuted?”

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

Companies are marketing cameras that try to identify people carrying weapons and drones that autonomously monitor border threats, among many other gizmos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

So the TiVo and ReplayTV boxes that once identified their owners as early adopters of a new video technology have become candidates for museums of obsolete gizmos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

One by one, the satellites – each of them encrusted with a hodge-podge of solar panels and other gizmos – detached from their mothership.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2024

Google instead wants to blitz you with buggy new gizmos whose basic functionalities lack everything that made Google an empire, a verb, a dependable custodian of the information superhighway.

From Slate ● May 16, 2024

Grandma says, “We don’t need more gizmos and gadgets. Oh, such waste of money.”

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor




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