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

What was the TVA doohickey that the murderer stole in 19th-century Nebraska?

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2021

Even if it’s a doohickey without any particular monetary value.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2021

"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