doohickey
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The AI-powered doohickey self-immolates upon coming across my first use of Spanglish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2024
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, you insert doohickey B into slot C. Or you can delete the you, since it’s understood to be 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
