How to Use doohickey in a Sentence
doohickey
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But where barrel jeans play with proportions and cuts, these pants are more about doohickeys and thingamabobs, straps, flaps, and pulleys.
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Sam Reed,
Glamour,
10 Oct. 2025
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There’s an amulet (one of those glowing doohickeys the fate of the cosmos hangs on), and your heart may sink every time someone starts chattering about it.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
6 May 2026
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Ty, who grew up in Breckenridge, also has eyes on other high-end outdoor doohickeys to complement the Skyloft Van.
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Max Scheinblum,
Denver Post,
12 Sep. 2025
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That is the fateful question seemingly posed by this new Pixar installment, which picks up on the familiar parenting conundrum about screentime as Woody, Buzz and the gang encounter a new doohickey in the playroom – a tablet.
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Dan Heching,
CNN Money,
5 Jan. 2026
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Co-writes from Brandi Carlile and vocals from Chris Stapleton can’t save it; the choruses can’t muster up the old dopamine hits; even the trademark Dessner doohickeys seem absent, just uninspired arrangements with heavily Melodyned vocals.
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Hannah Jocelyn,
Pitchfork,
20 Feb. 2026
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