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Example sentences for: thingies

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I mourn the lost clichés of labored regionalism and my own inability to figure out these "search engine" thingies.
The X-Files analogy is right on; Steve Forbes has to stop smiling or else Fox Mulder is going to put one of those sharp stainless-steel thingies in the back of his neck.