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
Asked if the policy was a "potty gimmick", Swinney told BBC Radio Scotland: "No, it's about helping people who are really struggling in our society today."
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
Not as a gimmick to please the King.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2026
A gimmick or, in today’s parlance, a “branding.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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