knickknack
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Ken, who declined to give his last name, has worked as a sales associate at Bunkado, a knickknack shop in Little Tokyo, for several years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
“Every knickknack I have, everything I don’t use, I’m selling,” said Ms. Gamble, 84, who has asked officials in neighboring Douglas County about applying for subsidized housing.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
Alithea, a literary scholar on a work trip in Istanbul, is the latest fated candidate to summon the djinn — purchasing the blue and white glass bottle that contains him from a knickknack shop.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
If anybody is going to figure out how to stop these knickknack injuries from becoming something bigger, it’s LeBron James.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2021
At Miss Lizzy’s I dusted every knickknack in that big house.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
Bulky server racks and wafer-thin semiconductors needed for the artificial-intelligence build-out are taking up space in cargo planes once occupied by packages of low-price apparel and knickknacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Meanwhile, Missi has been buying replicas of lost toys on eBay and knickknacks to occupy the empty spaces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
They found a pair of her father’s vintage spectacles and fragments of his sculptures, assembled from knickknacks and everyday objects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025
One afternoon, she invited Brink to her home, where the dining table was set with scissors, glue sticks, stacks of magazines and knickknacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2025
Other than that, the room was empty: there were no knickknacks on the mantelpiece, no statues or clocks; nothing that made it feel comfortable or lived-in.
From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
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