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widget

[wij-it] / ˈwɪdʒ ɪt /


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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

She also suggested prominently displaying the UV index widget on Yahoo Weather, after noting the growing attention to sun exposure across social media and within her teenage daughter’s friendship group.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 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

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

But what on earth is a widget fern?”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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 an interview earlier this month with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Mr. Trump once again explained that U.S. workers aren’t interchangeable widgets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

"I just certainly can't sit still; it gives me the widgets."

From The Dorrance Domain by Carolyn Wells




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