knick-knacks

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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 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

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

"He was wearing long shorts and this really stupid hat," says Jan Burres, a forty-one-year-old rub-ber tramp who was traveling around the West selling knick-knacks at flea markets and swap meets with her boyfriend, Bob.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer