as in equipment
items needed for the performance of a task or activity
gathered together the hardware needed to set up a first aid station at the finish line for the marathon
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Recent Examples of hardware
The director was also keen to flex about his new theater’s impressive hardware.
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Matt Donnelly, Variety, 27 June 2025
In a recent interview with Variety, Apple CEO Tim Cook denied any grand strategy to leverage content creation to move hardware units.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 27 June 2025
Documents requested include information about voting machines; voter rolls; software; software updates; hardware, including forensic-grade copies of hard drives; diagrams of all equipment, including network and Wi-Fi components; and flash drives that carry election results.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
Pure Storage introduced new hardware including 300TB DFM, FlashArrays and a new FlashBlade along with its Enterprise Data Cloud for managing and protecting on-premise, cloud and hosted data to enable a post-AI training world.
—Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
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Matt Donnelly, Variety, 27 June 2025
In a recent interview with Variety, Apple CEO Tim Cook denied any grand strategy to leverage content creation to move hardware units.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 27 June 2025
Documents requested include information about voting machines; voter rolls; software; software updates; hardware, including forensic-grade copies of hard drives; diagrams of all equipment, including network and Wi-Fi components; and flash drives that carry election results.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
Pure Storage introduced new hardware including 300TB DFM, FlashArrays and a new FlashBlade along with its Enterprise Data Cloud for managing and protecting on-premise, cloud and hosted data to enable a post-AI training world.
—Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hardware
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About a year ago in May 2024, a historically powerful geomagnetic storm was responsible for some reports of power grid irregularities and interference with GPS signals – even farming equipment.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
19 June 2025
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During the search, troopers allegedly found additional narcotics, drug paraphernalia, drug equipment and a large-capacity magazine.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
19 June 2025
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With the standard version, a 282-horsepower electric motor drives the rear wheels via a single gear transmission, with 234 miles on a full charge.—
Jim Gorzelany,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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With Prime Day 2025 just around the corner, pet parents can take advantage of deals on all kinds of useful pet gear, including popular pet cameras and smart water fountains.—
Cierra Cowan,
PC Magazine,
25 June 2025
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And Iran could launch some of its vast arsenal of missiles against Israel, though that would risk having many of them shot down by Israel’s Iron Dome defense apparatus.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
23 June 2025
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Musk's surge of donations to help elect Trump certainly took some pressure off the rest of the party's fundraising apparatus.—
Erin Doherty,
CNBC,
21 June 2025
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“Hardware.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hardware. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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