doohickey
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But what happens when one of your articles goes viral — not for its content but rather for how an AI doohickey swallowed up what you wrote and upchucked a controversial summation?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025
For the hard-to-reach places — the flower beds and under the azaleas — he has a little handheld doohickey, like a garden center jack-in-box.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2022
Even if it’s a doohickey without any particular monetary value.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2021
Instead The Clasp takes its name from a jeweler’s doohickey, a humble mechanism of connection and release.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2015
"It says 'e-i-l-a-s-h/ then that 'at' doohickey, then it says 'g-l-o-w-z' and then a period, and then 'n-e-t'—'net.' And that's all of it."
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
For years, as an early-warning alert system, the county agricultural people had been hanging Medfly traps hither and thither among our pretty, fructiferous trees — little A-frame-shaped cardboard doohickeys with a dab of fly attractant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
It’s one of those little mechanical doohickeys where you push it in, then it pops out.
From The Verge ● Mar. 29, 2022
But with these blasted, newfangled, electrical, book-reading doohickeys, how would I ever know?
From Salon ● May 12, 2013
The fatter-than-usual apparatus means there’s room for an oversize load of eye-catching doohickeys: a spinning house, a winged monkey, a melting witch, and a video-displaying crystal ball that Guarnieri sees as his coup de grâce.
From Slate ● Jan. 9, 2013
Little plastic doohickeys and thingamabobs cover many surfaces.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2011
