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knick-knacks

NOUN
bric-a-brac
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When you visit aging relatives, pull out your phone and record them going through old photo albums and telling the stories of the knick-knacks on their shelves.

From MarketWatch Nov. 21, 2025

The shops were full of "unique little knick-knacks", she says.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2025

The knick-knacks churned forth: anti-malathion spraying and anti-Jerry Brown T-shirts, buttons and bumper stickers.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 15, 2024

There are knick-knacks to touch, poke, and otherwise interact with that look suspiciously like puzzles to solve.

From The Verge Nov. 2, 2021

She is so altered from the woman I knew in the Capitol, stripped of the gaudy clothing, the heavy makeup, the dyes and jewelry and knick-knacks she adorned her hair with.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins




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