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knick-knacks

NOUN
bric-a-brac
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When you visit aging relatives, pull out your phone and record them going through old photo albums and telling the stories of the knick-knacks on their shelves.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 21, 2025

Souvenir shops nearby say they have also had to increase the prices of many of their knick-knacks because of tariffs and a decline in sales.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2025

There are knick-knacks to touch, poke, and otherwise interact with that look suspiciously like puzzles to solve.

From The Verge • Nov. 2, 2021

Shopee - akin to Alibaba's AliExpress, carrying Chinese-made knick-knacks - emerged as Brazil's top app by downloads and time spent in use, showed data from analytics platform App Annie.

From Reuters • Aug. 30, 2021

Mr. Mosley’s apartment was just as it had always been—same furniture, same knick-knacks, same DVDs—but everything was different.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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