knickknack
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Ken, who declined to give his last name, has worked as a sales associate at Bunkado, a knickknack shop in Little Tokyo, for several years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
Alithea, a literary scholar on a work trip in Istanbul, is the latest fated candidate to summon the djinn — purchasing the blue and white glass bottle that contains him from a knickknack shop.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
A knickknack shelf by the entrance holds some waving lucky cats, a model motorcycle, a small collection of Uncle Lou baseball caps and what must be a month’s supply of Vita tea in individual cartons.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
If anybody is going to figure out how to stop these knickknack injuries from becoming something bigger, it’s LeBron James.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2021
The designer jeans emporium, the Venetian paper knickknack shop, the stocking boutique with its kicking neon leg.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Bulky server racks and wafer-thin semiconductors needed for the artificial-intelligence build-out are taking up space in cargo planes once occupied by packages of low-price apparel and knickknacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
She orders on average 25 to 30 items each month: knickknacks, party supplies, gifts worth a few dollars each.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
As one of the few people allowed into the Palisades in the first days after the fire, she regularly came across garden ornaments or knickknacks that survived the flames.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025
Gascón was brightly backlit and had knickknacks and a potted plant behind him as he spoke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
He’s been fluffing pillows that don’t need to be fluffed, sweeping parts of the house that were already clean, and rearranging the knickknacks he already arranged moments before.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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