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also gismo
as in gadget
an interesting and often novel device with a practical use
found all sorts of interesting woodworking gizmos in the garage
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Recent Examples of gizmo
This new gizmo sounds like just the thing for someone in your life who's already got everything: a portable printer that puts art on your plate.
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Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 24 July 2025
For the past three years, New York City beaches have relied on drones to detect sharks and riptides, and now the gizmos are being used to drop flotation devices on swimmers in trouble.
—Henry Alford, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
The guitar player, his little knobby thing was not a gizmo thing.
—Jim Ryan, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
Perhaps there are a thousand robotic arms and conveyor belts and forklifts and gadgets and gizmos working to assemble, for example, an autonomous car.
—Michael Koziol, IEEE Spectrum, 20 June 2018
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Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 24 July 2025
For the past three years, New York City beaches have relied on drones to detect sharks and riptides, and now the gizmos are being used to drop flotation devices on swimmers in trouble.
—Henry Alford, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
The guitar player, his little knobby thing was not a gizmo thing.
—Jim Ryan, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
Perhaps there are a thousand robotic arms and conveyor belts and forklifts and gadgets and gizmos working to assemble, for example, an autonomous car.
—Michael Koziol, IEEE Spectrum, 20 June 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gizmo
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The middle aisle is restocked with home goods, organizers, candles, cleaning gadgets, even clothing and shoes, and new ALDI food items are stocked on the shelves, perched and ready for the deals to be snapped up by customers.—
Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
30 Sep. 2025
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If a specific style or gadget encourages you to drink more, that’s great.—
Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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Having a familiar presence like Joan at Westside Hospital is a helpful tool for Amy, who’s still rebuilding her life after the season 1 car crash that left her with a traumatic brain injury, wiping her memories of the previous eight years.—
Eric Andersson,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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Movies That Don’t Exist, a native digital format created and directed by Hernández, where AI becomes an experimental tool that amplifies creativity and connects with audiences through his YouTube channel, with over 3 million subscribers.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2025
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Upon the closing of the legendary hatch, a virtual hurricane blasted Goldberg inside the contraption, with Stitch gleefully running around its perimeter as Goldberg fished for a card holding the lucky number of one audience member who would ultimately win the trip.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Sep. 2025
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The team started by creating a nebulizer, or a contraption where Mahiri can stick her head into what looks like a multi-gallon jug with a large hole cut out of one side and a Tupperware attached to the other, the video shows.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
15 Sep. 2025
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While OpenAI says that scaling is key to driving innovation and future AI breakthroughs, investors and analysts are beginning to raise their eyebrows over the mindboggling sums.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
29 Sep. 2025
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Made in Africa is a monthly column by Rolling Stone staff writer Mankaprr Conteh that celebrates and interrogates the lives, concerns, and innovations of cultural workers of the African diaspora from their vantage point.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
29 Sep. 2025
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This will put borders around app icons, control panel buttons, widgets, and almost every other element of the software, for improved clarity.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
23 Sep. 2025
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One neat element of the Instinct Crossover AMOLED in particular is the way the watch face widgets can move slightly to avoid being obscured by the watch hands.—
Andrew Williams,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The probe also covers pacemakers, insulin pumps, coronary stents, heart valves, hearing aids, prosthetics, blood glucose monitors, orthopedic appliances, computed tomography scanners and magnetic resonance imaging machines.—
Reuters 12 hr ago,
CNN Money,
25 Sep. 2025
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Do not use electric appliances with plugs or cords.—
Staff reports,
AZCentral.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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Cleaning Bar Tools Beyond Glassware For other types of bar tools like shakers, jiggers, pour spouts, and metal utensils, rinse thoroughly after use and wash with a mild detergent.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
26 Sep. 2025
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Not quite as much as this crazy jigger, but extraordinary nonetheless.—
Loz Blain
August 04,
New Atlas,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Gizmo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gizmo. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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