as in gadget
an interesting and often novel device with a practical use
built a contraption for automatically buttering toast
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Being on a red carpet is already stressful enough for everyone there; that ecosystem doesn’t need a Saw-like contraption that could knock out Chloe Fineman that much.
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Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2025
The Steinbeck plaque was face up in a metal contraption called a casting flask.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Theater chains are dreaming up more and more whimsical—and, in some cases, distracting—contraptions in hopes of capturing attention.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 26 Nov. 2024
This 2,000-tonne contraption would be lowered on a string of pipe weighing 2,000 tonnes, and grapple the wreck weighing 4,000 tonnes.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 4 Jan. 2025
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Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2025
The Steinbeck plaque was face up in a metal contraption called a casting flask.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Theater chains are dreaming up more and more whimsical—and, in some cases, distracting—contraptions in hopes of capturing attention.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 26 Nov. 2024
This 2,000-tonne contraption would be lowered on a string of pipe weighing 2,000 tonnes, and grapple the wreck weighing 4,000 tonnes.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 4 Jan. 2025
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“Contraption.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contraption. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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