widget
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XL widgets: You can now fill an entire page of your homescreen with a single widget.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
A few weeks ago, I biked to meet a source for coffee, since my Android phone’s AccuWeather widget had seemingly projected a low, low chance of precipitation in the area.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
While owners can turn off the banner ads, doing so eliminates the widget altogether, a bummer for Brian Bosworth, a media-industry engineer who liked the feature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
A widget helps walk through the options and will calculate how much of the investment you need to make for the desired monthly benefit.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 17, 2025
To activate widget A, insert doohickey B into slot C. Looking for a dangler?
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
They even added iOS widgets and Siri shortcuts recently – “Hey Siri, turn on my VPN” actually works.
From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2026
Modern cars are packed with internet-connected widgets, many of them containing Chinese technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
The Dodgers lost, the last domino in a cascade triggered by a front office that miscast its humans as widgets in a search for even the tiniest of edges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025
It struck me as a complex way to complete a repetitive task, but that is part of Reframe’s pitch: This is not an assembly line churning out a thousand identical widgets.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2025
"I just certainly can't sit still; it gives me the widgets."
From The Dorrance Domain by Carolyn Wells
