doohickey

Example Sentences

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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

Some of us men, when searching the shelves at the hardware store and searching for the words to describe the doohickey we guess we need to fix the thing on the thing, feel unmanned.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2015

To activate widget A, doohickey B is inserted into slot C. If the one trying to activate the silly thing is you, make you the subject.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner