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bauble

noun as in trinket

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Rather than keep them all anyway, he held onto specific baubles for their daughters.

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At the Oval Office, he also loves to host those who have presented him with shiny baubles — like Apple CEO Tim Cook, who had given him a gold trophy with his company’s logo on it.

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A Christmas tree was dusted off, tinsel and baubles were unpacked, and the hotel was decked out with decorations.

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He does this by flashing shiny, fleeting baubles that further his parochial interests, while more consequential matters drift by like a passing cloud, unnoticed – leaving the hard, complex stuff to fade into neglect.

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This was, that meaningless bauble aside, a season of relative failure.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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