trinket
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No matter your travel budget, it turns out, there’s something deeply satisfying about bringing home a trinket or two in addition to a gazillion photos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
One analyst hasn’t been taken in, characterizing it as an effort to ride last year’s Labubu-led trinket craze.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 29, 2026
“People my age are taking an interest in having heirlooms and traditional items,” Van Hulsen says as she points to a silver-plated trinket tray that holds her jewelry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
From an £800 trinket box to a rusty ice cream fridge receiving zero bids, Bargain Hunt has seen thousands of items go under the hammer.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2025
He is not a rich man, but he is the co-owner of a small trinket factory, making knickknacks from copper, brooches and rings and bracelets and statues.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
She remembers when the blocks up to Tin Hau Temple brimmed with food carts, trinkets, and the occasional fortune-teller.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
She was buying plastic hair clips and silver trinkets by the dozen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Bags of trash, broken Christmas ornaments, useless trinkets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
The novel emerged as he began writing about the objects he had saved, everything from family keepsakes to trinkets picked up at the bazaars, which gradually brought his characters to life.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
The covering on the inside was hung with little trinkets and decorations.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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Lyrical vocabulary: Return to the '70s
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"Rules of the Game" (from The Joy Luck Club) by Amy Tan
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