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As if health coverage is a widget the company has engineered rather than a lifeline it is cutting.

But what on earth is a widget fern?”

In a factory, widgets travel down a conveyor belt, and workers tweak those widgets along the way.

The Dodgers lost, the last domino in a cascade triggered by a front office that miscast its humans as widgets in a search for even the tiniest of edges.

For the leaders of today’s cultural industries, films, TV series, albums, even books seem to be no more than widgets on an algorithmic assembly line, as fungible as yards of textile or gauges of steel.