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
Instead of a pricey plastic widget, you can use anything with a near field communication, or NFC, tag to act as your “Brick.”
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2026
Were Vrabel the CEO of a publicly traded widget factory, he might be in hot water with his board, no matter how many widgets he sold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Candidates in a real process would be able to log their issue with the on-screen help widget and receive a new link to restart the assessment, the company's VP of product, Claudia Baijens, says.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025
To activate widget A, insert doohickey B into slot C. Looking for a dangler?
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Not all widgets have a full-screen option, but my favorite one, Photos, does.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
But today, as A.I. widgets ooze through every crack of our digital lives, our reflexive outrage at the overreach is starting to wear down.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026
Technology and social media and artificial intelligence have turned us into widgets or worse, vessels for “engagement.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
They even added iOS widgets and Siri shortcuts recently – “Hey Siri, turn on my VPN” actually works.
From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2026
The day you leave public service all of your knowledge is current, and therefore valuable, especially to companies who want to sell widgets to the government.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau
