widget
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A few weeks ago, I biked to meet a source for coffee, since my Android phone’s AccuWeather widget had seemingly projected a low, low chance of precipitation in the area.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
The tariff on that $1 widget will now be 25 cents, up from 10 cents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 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, insert doohickey B into slot C. Looking for a dangler?
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
XL widgets: You can now fill an entire page of your homescreen with a single widget.
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
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
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
