doohickey
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But what happens when one of your articles goes viral — not for its content but rather for how an AI doohickey swallowed up what you wrote and upchucked a controversial summation?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025
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
And that name, in turn, inspired the name of the spinoff doohickey that engineers loved to ride down the halls of DEKA.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2021
Even if it’s a doohickey without any particular monetary value.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2021
To activate widget A, insert doohickey B into slot C. Looking for a dangler?
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
It’s one of those little mechanical doohickeys where you push it in, then it pops out.
From The Verge ● Mar. 29, 2022
Crosley, with her quirky cleverness, seems more in league with the doohickeys of the world than with the emeralds.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2015
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
