trinket
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No matter your travel budget, it turns out, there’s something deeply satisfying about bringing home a trinket or two in addition to a gazillion photos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
She uses it to make anything from trinket boxes to ornate geometric vases to statuettes of quizzical creatures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
One analyst hasn’t been taken in, characterizing it as an effort to ride last year’s Labubu-led trinket craze.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 29, 2026
Dolores fetches the trinket, bringing Vera to slow sobs of grief.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2025
He is not a rich man, but he is the co-owner of a small trinket factory, making knickknacks from copper, brooches and rings and bracelets and statues.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
She remembers when the blocks up to Tin Hau Temple brimmed with food carts, trinkets, and the occasional fortune-teller.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
“These people often prefer to be wearing gold or have gold trinkets or jewelry in their home prominently displayed,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
His Batman fandom is also abundantly clear in the more than two dozen items of Batman-inspired art, furniture and trinkets that are also up for sale.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
The novel emerged as he began writing about the objects he had saved, everything from family keepsakes to trinkets picked up at the bazaars, which gradually brought his characters to life.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
A banjo clock that would never again keep time but had a tiny cupboard where I kept the other trinkets I’d found.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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"Rules of the Game" (from The Joy Luck Club) by Amy Tan
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