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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

Bell said she and her roommate planned to look at various knick-knacks and make a stop by the adoption center.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 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

Shopee - akin to Alibaba's AliExpress, carrying Chinese-made knick-knacks - emerged as Brazil's top app by downloads and time spent in use, showed data from analytics platform App Annie.

From Reuters • Aug. 30, 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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