Thesaurus results for HARDWARE

hardware

noun

ˈhärd-ˌwer

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 museum will include five gallery spaces that will cover 25,000 total square feet; an additional 10,000 square feet are set aside for the technologies and hardware required to run the type of cutting edge digital art that will be on view at DATALAND. —

Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 24 Apr. 2026 DeepSeek’s open-source approach allowed developers to download its model for free, tweak it for their own purposes, and run it on local hardware. —

Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026 Shortages of these components have affected all types of computing hardware, from consumer laptops to servers. —

ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026 The latter factor is somewhat beyond its control, because the memory chips in these tuners are yet another category of hardware subject to inflation driven by runaway demand for AI data centers. —

Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hardware

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Bose pros Bose products are known for their rich sound, and although Bose is a top audio equipment brand, many of them are more affordable than Sonos equivalents.

— BestReviews, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026
The equipment did not provide a warning the night of the collision since the fire trucks did not have transponders and were only partially picked up by ground radar.

— Aaron Cooper, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026