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

Searching, the new mystery starring John Cho, often plays like a feature-length video tutorial, the kind that demonstrates to users new to a computer or operating system what their new doohickey can do.

From Slate • Aug. 22, 2018

To activate widget A, insert doohickey B into slot C. Looking for a dangler?

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