gimmicky

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That should shut down whoever is trying to wheedle you into gimmicky strategies, or chasing the returns of recently hot assets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Back in reality, humanoid machines have been often far less polished and more gimmicky, clumsy and buggy than their fictional counterparts.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

“There have been gimmicky things in the past. I ask them to trust us and look and see where we go from here.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025

The film was shot on souped-up iPhones, which would initially seem gimmicky if Boyle hadn’t shot parts of the “28 Days Later” on handheld digital video camcorders.

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2025

All the cubist stuff was gimmicky, as far as she was concerned.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls