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: gadget
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: an unnamed article considered for purposes of hypothetical example
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: a small software application that is designed to provide a specific piece of information (such as news, weather, or traffic updates) or a specific function (such as taking notes or controlling another application) on demand
This resource allows anglers to see what advisories are in effect in specific waterways … . The web page is optimized for mobile devices, with a widget that allows users to zoom to their exact location on the map with the press of a button.—
Chris Knauss
Chris KnaussA widget might show you the weather forecast, or the latest baseball scores. There are widgets that show photographs you've stored online, or that cull images from the Daily Puppy Web site.—Rob Walker
Rob WalkerExamples of widget in a Sentence
manufacturers of all kinds of widgets for the do-it-yourselfer
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Live cursors, presence indicators and in-context commenting create continuous awareness among participants, while AI agents contribute through suggestion widgets, status indicators and real-time function calls.
—Roshan Pawar, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
That will address some user complaints that common VR games and applications from other platforms (which use physical accessories and controllers like this) wouldn't work on the Vision Pro.
Also, widgets are now supported in visionOS.
—Samuel Axon, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2025
That was before Gose realized that, in the private-equity world, a hospital was just another widget, a tool to make money and nothing more.
—Megan Greenwell, The Atlantic, 9 June 2025
By attempting to crash all these fields while trying to pump up the most old-fashioned forms of manufacturing through his tariff sledgehammer, Trump seems literally to want to drive Americans from sectors requiring thought and invention to screwing in widgets on assembly lines.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
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Roshan Pawar, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
That will address some user complaints that common VR games and applications from other platforms (which use physical accessories and controllers like this) wouldn't work on the Vision Pro.
Also, widgets are now supported in visionOS.
—Samuel Axon, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2025
That was before Gose realized that, in the private-equity world, a hospital was just another widget, a tool to make money and nothing more.
—Megan Greenwell, The Atlantic, 9 June 2025
By attempting to crash all these fields while trying to pump up the most old-fashioned forms of manufacturing through his tariff sledgehammer, Trump seems literally to want to drive Americans from sectors requiring thought and invention to screwing in widgets on assembly lines.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
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“Widget.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/widget. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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