widget
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Wanting to keep the widget but not the ads, the 49-year-old in Edgewater, Md., made sure his home router’s ad-blocking software extended to his fridge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
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
As if health coverage is a widget the company has engineered rather than a lifeline it is cutting.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 19, 2025
It also runs substantive service journalism, like this column, by Michael J. Coren, about the threat of climate change on homeowners, with a widget that can assess the vulnerability of specific counties.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2024
But what on earth is a widget fern?”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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But today, as A.I. widgets ooze through every crack of our digital lives, our reflexive outrage at the overreach is starting to wear down.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 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
In a factory, widgets travel down a conveyor belt, and workers tweak those widgets along the way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Forget about reading books, buy no computers or widgets.
From The Cyberpunk Fakebook by St. Jude