Thesaurus results for WIDGETS

widgets

noun

plural of widget

as in gadgets

an interesting and often novel device with a practical use manufacturers of all kinds of widgets for the do-it-yourselfer

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Recent Examples of widgets There will also be a distinct set of widgets for each of the Camera app’s capture modes. —

Stevie Bonifield, The Verge, 12 May 2026 Accessing data from other apps in the car will be easier as well due to the addition of widgets. —

ArsTechnica, 12 May 2026 The career mode now gets real-world sponsors; there are new, super-nerdy widgets for the HUD that detail the innerworkings of the powertrain and ECU; track art, foliage, and environmental lighting have seen a lift; and AI has been further balanced, just to name a few other touch-ups. —

Adam Ismail, The Drive, 25 Mar. 2026 Compal/iF Design View gallery - 6 images Compal’s award-winning AI Book concept adds a color E Ink display to the laptop’s palm rest area, turning otherwise unused space into a stylus-friendly workspace for notes, widgets, and AI prompts. —

New Atlas, 6 Mar. 2026 Those domains powered legitimate extension features like weather widgets and new tab pages. —

Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Jan. 2026 The paper’s push into new products, including an opinion news aggregator launched this week, is trying to solve an audience problem with new widgets for which there’s little clear demand. —

Max Tani, semafor.com, 11 Dec. 2025 Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. —

Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 22 Oct. 2025 From icons and widgets to menu bars and more, many UI elements can now be made transparent to offer more usable space on-screen. —

PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2025

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Rather than functioning as stand-alone gadgets, the glasses are designed to extend the apps and services consumers already use through Gemini and Android XR.

— Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 19 May 2026
Too often, modern technologies, like inter-device connectivity and artificial intelligence, are shoehorned into gadgets that would be more intuitive to use, affordable, accessible, and/or durable without them.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026