widget
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A few weeks ago, I biked to meet a source for coffee, since my Android phone’s AccuWeather widget had seemingly projected a low, low chance of precipitation in the area.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
The tariff on that $1 widget will now be 25 cents, up from 10 cents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
A widget helps walk through the options and will calculate how much of the investment you need to make for the desired monthly benefit.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 17, 2025
Candidates in a real process would be able to log their issue with the on-screen help widget and receive a new link to restart the assessment, the company's VP of product, Claudia Baijens, says.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025
To activate widget A, you insert doohickey B into slot C. Or you can delete the you, since it’s understood to be the subject.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
A humdrum company making widgets might snag a better valuation by remaining private until it became more established.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Technology and social media and artificial intelligence have turned us into widgets or worse, vessels for “engagement.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
They even added iOS widgets and Siri shortcuts recently – “Hey Siri, turn on my VPN” actually works.
From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2026
It struck me as a complex way to complete a repetitive task, but that is part of Reframe’s pitch: This is not an assembly line churning out a thousand identical widgets.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2025
The day you leave public service all of your knowledge is current, and therefore valuable, especially to companies who want to sell widgets to the government.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau
