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
Meta’s top-tier Ray-Ban Display augmented reality smart glasses offer impressive hardware, but PCMag’s review found the software limited, with too many ties to Meta’s own apps.
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James Peckham, PC Magazine, 15 May 2026
Constant motion also puts stress on the hardware.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
With the firm's successful IPO on Thursday, Feldman and hardware technology chief Sean Lie, two of its co-founders, became billionaires based on their holdings.
—Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 15 May 2026
The owners really took care to preserve and polish the ornate, original brass hardware throughout the mansion: even the doorknobs are pretty.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2026
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James Peckham, PC Magazine, 15 May 2026
Constant motion also puts stress on the hardware.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
With the firm's successful IPO on Thursday, Feldman and hardware technology chief Sean Lie, two of its co-founders, became billionaires based on their holdings.
—Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 15 May 2026
The owners really took care to preserve and polish the ornate, original brass hardware throughout the mansion: even the doorknobs are pretty.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hardware
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Fly By Jing discovered that a third-party manufacturer produces its products on equipment that also processed peanuts, which may have led to cross-contamination, according to the recall.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
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The device could also diagnose sleep disorders without bulky la equipment, monitor mental health conditions over time, and sense early signs of medical complications, the university said.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
14 May 2026
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As the play died down, a female fan decked out in White Sox gear reportedly began mercilessly heckling the 24-year-old outfielder.—
Alejandro Avila OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
18 May 2026
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Treat clothing and other gear with products that contain permethrin to repel ticks.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
18 May 2026
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Even the artists whose work all this machinery is supposedly serving no longer have a reliable way to know what real audiences actually want, since whatever feedback reaches them may already have passed through the same apparatus built to distort that feedback in the first place.—
Lane Brown,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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He has been widely viewed as the operational commander of the country’s military and intelligence apparatus at the time of the shootdown.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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“Hardware.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hardware. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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