whatnot
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The diminishing impact of the tariffs is apparent in softer prices for goods — furniture, appliances, new cars and whatnot.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
"On the Saturday, you go in at eight o'clock in the morning, you have your hair done for an hour, so you might be having hair pieces and whatnot added," she said.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
We’re doing twists and turns and loops and whatnot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
AI has the ability to be a Ph.D. in your pocket, a doctor in your pocket, an analyst in your pocket, an accountant, and whatnot.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
Come end of picking season, he’d wander out to some old lonely place they’d told him about and look for arrowheads and bits of old bones, clamshell, and whatnot.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
The reality is, some doodads might be hard to find, while other whatnots will be in plentiful supply.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
The paintings, photos and whatnots are mostly hung in suites of three or four.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2015
Three CDs worth of the strangest hums and whirrs and whatnots is a full universe away from Christmas commercialized but remarkably close to its original spiritual essence of selflessness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2014
Having refreshed, we’d cruise the bright, gaily tiled food courts, gathering up whatnots for supper at home: Scotch eggs, fish pies, aromatic salamis and cheeses, dumplings, fresh-shot pheasant.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2013
She was much more concerned with making things right with Josie and her dad, Ivy and Lucinda’s family, and the families of all the other kids who had ever pretended to be whatnots.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
