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
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
But what on earth is a widget fern?”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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
They even added iOS widgets and Siri shortcuts recently – “Hey Siri, turn on my VPN” actually works.
From Salon ● Feb. 11, 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
Forget about reading books, buy no computers or widgets.
From The Cyberpunk Fakebook by St. Jude
