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Various other mythological agents, recipes and gewgaws are crafted as desired.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2024

It was like a cupboard, crowded with old gewgaws and dust-coated knickknacks — the critic’s mind! — and, fool that I am, I couldn’t squeeze Katz into it.

From Washington Post Oct. 29, 2022

Batman and Superman gewgaws are on view to underscore that point.

From Seattle Times Oct. 20, 2022

We have babies and then we buy—blankets, strollers, a playpen, a high chair, gewgaws, and contraptions.

From The New Yorker Mar. 24, 2019

No place in town had more gimcracks, doodads, and gewgaws crammed into less space in a more orderly fashion than Onofre’s spread.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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