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Recent Examples of doodad First, there’s gear, or technology—the gadgets and doodads that must stash in your carryon alongside a laptop and cellphone. Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2025 Sprinkled among the tens of thousands of holiday doodads are pieces of family history that Brown holds dearer to his heart than any of the Christmas adornments that have a high monetary value. Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 12 Dec. 2024 Picture a gloved dental hygienist, sticking a metal pick and a suction doodad in your mouth, casually chitchatting while you’re stuck staring at the ceiling. Celia Ford, Vox, 3 Mar. 2025 The kitchen, where visitors can rifle through drawers and cabinets filled with Tupperware, aluminum serving dishes and other modern doodads available to postwar home cooks, is a year-round attraction. Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for doodad
Recent Examples of Synonyms for doodad
Noun
  • Scales attack a variety of plants including woody ornamentals such as boxwoods, camellias and hollies, young trees such as maples, and houseplants.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 26 June 2025
  • To maintain healthy ornamentals that bloom abundantly, avoid pruning these 10 plants in summer.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • Along with a glimmering Christmas display of ornaments and decorations, the Guamans have collections of garden and holiday gnomes.
    Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2025
  • The eponymous brand founder and creative director, Temple St. Clair, creates pieces and designs that reflect her passion for the history of jewelry and gold — with the traditions of personal ornaments and storytelling at the heart of her brand ethos.
    Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Anthony is part of a triumvirate of baubles the Red Sox have dangled before their fan base for several seasons.
    Bill Speros, Boston Herald, 12 June 2025
  • Hill piled on the accessories, and walked the red carpet with large burgundy sunglasses, gold bauble earrings, a blue Hermés Kelly bag and an umbrella that perfectly matched the color of her suit.
    Colson Thayer, People.com, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • The New York Times was again amazed at the floral decorations.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 7 July 2025
  • For his actions, Brewer, 79, was awarded the Silver Star, the third-highest military decoration.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • Lenovo’s claim appears to be that the Legion 9i can fully cool itself with this method, no thingamajig needed.
    Monica Chin, The Verge, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Shot in 2021, the film apparently featured a crew of Ukrainian gangsters as the henchmen of Hugh Grant’s billionaire arms dealer antagonist, Greg Simmonds (who is brokering the thingamajig deal).
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
Noun
  • Words that foiled spellers included chrysal, athanor, cloxacillin, heliconius, torticollis, platylepadid and gewgaw, and at one point judges had to review a video replay to determine whether a speller said the letter I or Y.
    New York Times, New York Times, 9 July 2021
  • And how nice to see Cynthia Erivo — to really see the woman and not have her overwhelmed by an elaborate mishmash of ruffles and gewgaws.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2020
Noun
  • Their handbags would be architectural in shape, sleek and spare of overwrought ornamentation.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 June 2025
  • The Raw Edition from Copenhagen Distillery is a clear statement of intent, avoiding ornamentation and putting instead process and material at the forefront.
    Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
Noun
  • This model is basically an all-things-to-all people air-changing doohickey par excellence.
    Simon Hill, Wired News, 31 Mar. 2025
  • This model is basically an all-things-to-all people air-changing doohickey par excellence.
    Simon Hill, Wired News, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Doodad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doodad. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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