widget

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Recent Examples of widget Of course, the big draw here is the exterior screen, and Motorola has been rolling out new widgets and compatible apps for the smaller display. Brad Bourque, Wired News, 9 Oct. 2025 The ripple effect across the economy, ranging from steel and glass to paint and widget firms, is enormous, and all those workers are consumers. Jeff Kingston, Time, 4 Oct. 2025 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 The color of your folders, which also controls the tint of icons and widgets in tinted mode. ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for widget
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gadget
Noun
  • That being said, some travel essentials stay packed and ready—the gear, gadgets, and go-tos that make every trip that much easier.
    Samantha Leal, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2025
  • This signals Noetix’s interest in cultivating a developer community around Bumi, treating it as a participatory platform rather than a closed gadget.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025

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“Widget.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/widget. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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