widget
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“I don’t know if I’ll ever understand, but OK,” Ceci says aloud as an on-screen widget, “Dictating with Aqua Voice,” transcribes her reply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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
They run as a rectangular banner at the bottom—part of a widget that also shows news, the weather and a calendar.
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, doohickey B is inserted into slot C. If the one trying to activate the silly thing is you, make you the subject.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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
In a factory, widgets travel down a conveyor belt, and workers tweak those widgets along the way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Forget about reading books, buy no computers or widgets.
From The Cyberpunk Fakebook by St. Jude
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