widget
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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
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
Most recently, I installed a screen-time widget on my home screen.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2024
To activate widget A, you insert doohickey B into slot C. Or you can delete the you, since it’s understood to be the subject.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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
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
Forget about reading books, buy no computers or widgets.
From The Cyberpunk Fakebook by St. Jude
