It's a gimmick, yes, but it's not just a gimmick.
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Thomas Foolery offered "gimmick upon gimmick," according to the Washington Post.
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The characters are likeable and the gimmick is fun, but it's just that—a gimmick.
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The Moto Z is a phone built around a strong gimmick, but it's a gimmick nonetheless.
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Edge Sense has always been a gimmick — but who can blame HTC for embracing a gimmick.
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If critics would accuse us of being a gimmick, I'd ask: 'A gimmick in which way?
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There's nothing wrong with a gimmick, so long as it isn't a gimmick for its own sake.
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Is a gimmick still a gimmick if it's been accepted as a normal part of the culture?
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Seeing the soundtracks arrive in these mediums is a bit of a gimmick, but it's a fun gimmick.
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For years, Samsung's solution was to throw gimmick after gimmick into a new device and pray something would stick.
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Back in the gimmick days of the 90s, his former tag team partner, John Nord, adopted his gimmick as The Berzerker.
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Except even that gimmick, and the war spending gimmick, and the magical $600 billion in non-defense spending savings, isn't enough for budget balance.
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Audiophile headphone maker Audeze is getting into this gimmick game with the announcement of its new Mobius headset — though the difference here is that Audeze's gimmick is really rather awesome.
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The Dual Display is a gimmick — a bad one.
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It was obviously a staged gimmick, but even so ...
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Rhodes, meanwhile, entered the next stage of his career, where feud after feud, gimmick after gimmick, he would be handed a challenge—often, it was table scraps—and told to get it over.
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I decided on the gimmick of abs in eighty days.
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For one, they said, it was too much a gimmick.
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It's an important message squeezed into an awkward, unreliable gimmick.
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The producers had transformed Nasubi into a walking, talking gimmick.
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For Zomato, the drone test is more than a gimmick.
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The doors are not just a gimmick or aesthetic flourish.
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In practice, it could be seen as just a gimmick.
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It all seems like a gimmick, but it pays off.
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This isn't just a gimmick wrapped inside a junk phone.
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This is another gimmick to try to make a buck.
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But are these service platforms really more than a gimmick?
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At first, I thought metallic lip products were a gimmick.
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WWE's most notorious gimmick match is Hell in a Cell.
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I would hate to do things that become a gimmick.
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It's because we just don't want to be a gimmick.
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Do you think it can sometimes be a marketing gimmick?
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Augmented reality is certainly the gimmick du jour these days.
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The listing, of course, is little more than a gimmick.
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This, at the end of the day, is a gimmick.
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This is not a strained gimmick created for shock effect.
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Are they any good, or are they just a gimmick?
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" (Tuesday), which inspired a gimmick in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds.
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Unlike those books, there is no looming gimmick or twist.
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But members of both parties reject that as a gimmick.
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Bottom lineIn short, the GilletteLabs Heated Razor is no gimmick.
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One person's "gimmick" is another person's life's work, after all.
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It became clear this is more than a foldable gimmick.
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You can't really blame HTC for leading with a gimmick.
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But the gimmick that propels the action undercuts the characters.
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You might even think this sounds like a marketing gimmick.
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At the time, Mr. Dhesi's gimmick was about practicing peace.
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Once seen as a gimmick, it has become widely accepted.
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So is the second screen useful or just a gimmick?
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I hope that unraveling this gimmick brings solvers commensurate joy.
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"Was that a gimmick for the election?" he asked. "Possibly."
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The Ultra Wide camera feels distinctly like a gimmick too.
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Is slightly more useful than before, but still a gimmick.
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"This is an act of political theater, artificial gimmick," Rep.
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"It's a political gimmick, and we shouldn't justify it," Rep.
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Gimmick piled upon gimmick, and it was too bad, because it obscured the fact that Mr. Gaultier is still a master at making a sleeveless gold shirtdress and a beige anorak look ineffably chic.
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In the United States, mime is generally understood as a gimmick.
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That's not the only odd budget gimmick embraced by Congressional Republicans.
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By the end it's twisted and gnarled into an outright gimmick.
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A chatbot that can't do all that is really the gimmick.
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It's a gimmick, sure, but one we've come to rely on.
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But diving in too dramatically is a bit of a gimmick.
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"They would have thought this was just a gimmick," he said.
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Primer can seem like a gimmick, but I promise it isn't.
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They've always been a shiny gimmick, despite what some people hoped.
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This wasn't a gimmick cooked up to try and sell books.
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The bigger issue is the gimmick of the Joy-Con controllers.
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For it to be seen as more than a cheap gimmick.
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And marketers for the 2011 movie Contagion used a similar gimmick.
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No, it's not the latest relationship philosophy or vaginal health gimmick.
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Good to note the whole blank-page gimmick is nothing new.
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But the paper is far more than a gimmick, Murphy said.
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It's important to recall just what she was beyond the gimmick.
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Which is why they're body-shaming you as a marketing gimmick.
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The Note Edge was written off as a gimmick by many.
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That gimmick was simple in retrospect, but proved to be revolutionary.
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Jimmy Jacobs lampooned the Bruiser Brody gimmick in his early career.
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So thrice blighted and the opposite of useful: A fiddly gimmick.
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Can a bar open in an Australian city without a gimmick?
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" Some might criticize this plan as "an accounting trick" or "gimmick.
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A live concert seems like an affordable and potentially enjoyable gimmick.
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"This Is Us," created by Dan Fogelman, does have a gimmick.
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" James N on "Think Amazon's Drone Delivery Idea Is a Gimmick?
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Gimmick -- a trick or device intended to attract attention or business.
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The bare-knuckle part is more of a gimmick than anything.
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The style no longer feels like a gimmick or a stunt.
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It was a silly gimmick, but it got the point across.
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It's like 4K, but with more Ks. Is it a gimmick?
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In WWE, his gimmick was that of a rich Mexican playboy.
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Every single performance tonight has some mad, obscene and incredible gimmick.
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Zak Bagans's Haunted Museum serves up one offensive gimmick after another.
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As a whole, the museum is simply one gimmick after another.
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I know that's his gimmick but he's only 7 & doesn't understand.
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Four blank black pages follow, and they're far from a gimmick.
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I guess the gimmick was too hard without the extra help.
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"We are gimmick-free," the new league president, Jeffrey Pollack, said.
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Is Ambilight just a gimmick or is it genuinely game-changing?
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Analysts deride the move as little more than an accounting gimmick.
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The lottery winner clause, for example, appears to be a gimmick.
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This makes Boston's "Sweet Caroline" gimmick look extremely pitiful and joyless.
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The level itself is pretty easy, but the gimmick is astounding.
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Defying categorization isn't a goal or a gimmick; it's a given.
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Every once in a while, a marketing gimmick manages to surprise.
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It's a funny gimmick, raunchily executed, but not much more than that.
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If a gimmick sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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It might be a goofy gimmick, but it certainly did the trick.
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It's $149.99, which is a little steep for a gimmick like this.
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Yes, reaching POTUS via Messenger feels like a bit like a gimmick.
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Even the meta-voiceover narration gimmick has been done in The Tick.
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For now, though, Edge Sense seems like little more than a gimmick.
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"It's a political gimmick, and we shouldn't justify it," said Rep. Peters.
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Advisers also know that the move would be perceived as a gimmick.
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As has become common in these shows, "Bull" employs a visual gimmick.
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It's a steadily growing business, and an effective promotional gimmick for businesses.
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These interruptions are a gimmick designed to interfere with the Committee's investigation.
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It's unclear if the leak was a bug or a marketing gimmick.
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Gimmick or not, people really seem to like Samsung's Galaxy "Edge" smartphones.
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In last week's "Gadget Or Gimmick" column, I reviewed a cooke tray.
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The most effective remedy, it turns out, probably isn't some gimmick, anyway.
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This isn't one of those "best deals" lists, or a promotional gimmick.
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The new initiative represents a predictable iteration of Amazon's Treasure Truck gimmick.
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It is not a gimmick, nor is it a novelty food item.
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"At CES everything is a gimmick until it's a thing," said Blau.
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It is becoming a gimmick—much like America's obsession with pumpkin spice.
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Be smart: Policy-specific "czars" can be a bit of a gimmick.
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Bayley works a feel-good babyface gimmick of neon and slap bracelets.
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Then the NHL regular season came along, and basically stole their gimmick.
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So the question becomes: Gimmick or not, when is Dohtonbori heading stateside?
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Some doubted whether the footage was real or merely a marketing gimmick.
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I wouldn't want to be launching anything with a gimmick right now.
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In sports, the public signing of contracts is merely a publicity gimmick.
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That, too, was largely cast aside by critics as a mere gimmick.
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But the race was no gimmick to the runners or the organizers.
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The emphasis on blackness is not just a marketing gimmick, he said.
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Yet, they were never a gimmick, so they didn't get old either.
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But one thing they're not, according to Tiffany Beers, is a gimmick.
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It was precisely the sort of feel good gimmick pro wrestling needs.
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Giving cash to families with no strings attached isn't a pointless gimmick.
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Or is it just another Hollywood gimmick for the rich and famous?
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"This gimmick perverts the motivation to vote," said The Los Angeles Times.
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It's neat, but it's also mostly a gimmick — at least for now.
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Perhaps the gimmick itself was deemed not appropriate for early week crosswords.
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As an advertising gimmick, a luxury car adorns the L-station roof.
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"I promise you it's not a gimmick," Jenkins told fans at CCXP.
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"This is really a budget gimmick," she said in an interview. Rep.
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With gesture controls, Casper has mastered the art of the The Gimmick.
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Many will worry that it is a gimmick that elicits a backlash.
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AP: Were you concerned that it could come off like a gimmick?
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And what sounds like a gimmick turns out to be a godsend.
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"Another political gimmick," he declared, advising Republicans to vote against the amendment.
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If anything, she'd benefit from lavishing greater attention upon gimmick and novelty.
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But in the moment, it felt like what we were being asked to do was take a concept that we had found to not be a gimmick and then stretch it right back into a 90-minute gimmick.
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On top of that, The Good Cop's central gimmick of the show — Groban is the titular good cop, in contrast to Danza as his more morally loosey-goosey father — remains a gimmick rather than prompting any real character growth.
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Lee's carny gimmick was transparently a schtick, but that's part of the fun.
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"I can see family fights" over this, another added of the "krafty" gimmick.
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In the absence of education on what the squiggles meant, it's a gimmick.
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That price will get you a middling phone with an admittedly fascinating gimmick.
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Curved screens are, in most circumstances, a gimmick in search of a purpose.
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After all, once it hits mainstream acceptance, it's not really a gimmick anymore.
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But it was also, maybe inevitably, regarded as a gimmick by many critics.
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Mercifully, the curved TV gimmick finally looks like it's on its way out.
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But do color correctors actually do anything, or are they just another gimmick?
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In defeat, though, the continuation of this gimmick becomes a little more confused.
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He can't have the early career, quasi-ironic gimmick people grow nostalgic for.
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But despite the "high schoolers only" gimmick, the app never saw much success.
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Streetcars Are the Great Urban Gimmick of Our TimeI want to love streetcars.
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Black Shark's application of this sort of tech is still mostly a gimmick.
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Either way, flexibility remains more a quirky gimmick than a truly useful feature.
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A slow, inaccurate iris scanner would doom the feature to being a gimmick.
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It's often the case that the act with the best gimmick wins Eurovision.
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CEO Mirza Cifric says that it's more than just a holiday-season gimmick.
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They have an idea or a gimmick they can upload every day, right?
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It may sound like a gimmick but these entrepreneurs are filling a need.
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There's no gimmick involved and it doesn't appear to be a particular fetish.
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"I enjoy making gimmick levels, which shows off a cool trick," they said.
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It's a gimmick, sure, and nowhere near innovative, but these things aren't junk.
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It's no gimmick ... Bosh is a legit musician who's been playing for years.
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But those felt more like a gimmick for marketing purposes than anything else.
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Outside the usual tech bubbles it remains a bit of a novel gimmick.
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" Thematic investing, though, is not in and of itself any sort of "gimmick.
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"powerful" gimmick recently deployed was the placement of a statue of a girl
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"Honestly, I thought it was gonna be a cheap gimmick," said Matthew Ferrell.
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Mone refuted the idea that the bitcoin-priced development was a "marketing gimmick".
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But Ms. McLean didn't overuse what is in danger of becoming a gimmick.
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If you consider it simply as buying a game, it's an expensive gimmick.
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The magic of this installation is undeniable, even to the gimmick-averse eye.
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To grown-ups, the MAGA building blocks may look like a political gimmick.
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Still, for at least three reasons, this gimmick should not become a trend.
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Most hospitality houses also have some gimmick tangentially related to their home country.
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Sahbabii's belief in himself, instilled and supported by his family, is no gimmick.
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A rise in the number of gimmick acts further cheapened the show's reputation.
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When does a gimmick become a valid part of an artist's creative identity?
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Myanmar dismissed his criticism as a political gimmick to garner Malay Muslim votes.
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Whether it's a fun gimmick or a useful tool remains to be seen.
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"It's more gimmick quite honestly than fundamentally disrupting the retail experience," Beck said.
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Clearly, the risk of a disappointing gimmick would seem to be running high.
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I hope nobody gave up on it before figuring out its fun gimmick.
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The gimmick here was to split BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY into parts of other answers.
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The neat thing about it is that this wasn't done as a gimmick.
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LG: Julian, am I hearing correctly, you don't think this is a gimmick?
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Critics argued it was a gimmick to drive down his average donation amount.
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The unedited version of this puzzle clued the gimmick in the opposite direction.
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To sustain a long career, you've got to have more than a gimmick.
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That gimmick earned at least one fan at the White House as well.
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It wouldn't be the first gimmick that Tinder used to boost engagement, either.
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So what do you say to people who have called this a gimmick?
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But it's the kind of thing that just strikes me as a gimmick.
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The move was obviously a gimmick, and was played up by the announcers.
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This isn't purely just a gimmick (it's a lot of gimmick though) because the idea is that the added benefit of these power laces is that the shoe's laces will give the same sort of consistent scrunching and tightening each time.
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My submitted version didn't have the second half of the revealer clue (it was just "Riddled with ghosts") since I like the idea of a gimmick puzzle that has no indication anywhere that it's a gimmick puzzle — just clues and words.
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Gimmick or not, Motorola's still committed to its modular phones and Moto Mod attachments.
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They aren't going to be bought off with a stray Snapchat gimmick or two.
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In terms of possible performance gains, a dual-camera system isn't just a gimmick.
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As an idea, though, it's a pretty great use of a weird tech gimmick.
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Even as a gimmick you try out once, it doesn't seem worth the effort.
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Gimmick aside, as an expert swordsman, Geralt is a perfect fit for the franchise.
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Room for improvement definitely remains, but this isn't just some cynical Apple-chasing gimmick.
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A little gimmick here, a pinch of innovation there—but essentially they're all identical.
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His biggest concern is that he doesn't want his work perceived as a gimmick.
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But their gestures are a flawed gimmick, and the sound offered simply isn't impressive.
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Hiroshi Tanahashi continued his aging great champion gimmick with fire matches against all comers.
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At $699, it's a decent mid-range phone with a heck of a gimmick.
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But some of its hardware experiments border on gimmick-y than being genuinely useful.
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We're not saying the squeeze technology is a gimmick...but it sounds pretty weird.
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I don't think this is some gimmick; rather, it's something we must take seriously.
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The organization knows that the clock is a gimmick, but that's the entire point.
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As the New Day grew more popular, their gimmick became increasingly absurd and outlandish.
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It's a neat feature that's some combination of flashy gimmick and genuinely useful feature.
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Perfect babyface gimmick, cool merchandise, good stories, and cred from some truly spectacular matches.
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There's a new S Pen Air Actions feature that's more gimmick than anything else.
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It's a gimmick to ease the public outrage over the industry's anti-competitive tactics.
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Yes. Would I like the indefensible gimmick that is OCO to go away completely?
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To the uninitiated, the Armory NYC Indoor Marathon may have looked like a gimmick.
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Eventually, I gave up on the gimmick and recorded the rest with a finger.
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For the most part Karate Combat is heavy on gimmick and light on substance.
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The meta-gimmick of Extreme Rules is that each match has, well, extreme rules.
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We call him a fraud and a gimmick; we say that he knows it.
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Embedding the effects into a guitar, while cool, might be seen as a gimmick.
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It's novel, though, perhaps, just a gimmick depending on how LG prices the accessories.
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Do you want to fall for the same gimmick a six year-old does?
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Cat-as-a-Hat: a goofy gimmick worthy of Dr. Seuss — but it works!
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And that estimate is probably low, because the plan depends on a budgetary gimmick.
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This small neighborhood spot in Carlton North does not need a tasting-menu gimmick.
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Netflix's The Crown doesn't mean to be gimmicky, but it's still got a gimmick.
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It sounds gimmicky, but word is it's a gimmick that works really, really well.
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She's never been the greatest worker, but she's always had a gimmick kids love.
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Here, at least, there's that really delightful 3D gimmick to keep things moving along, and when you've got a slasher flick about a guy in a gas mask and mining gear slaughtering teens with a pickax, that gimmick is more than enough.
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Congratulations to our winner, and to every trashy brand competing in this spectacular marketing gimmick.
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That gimmick was partially designed to make the most of the film's obvious low budget.
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We're not going to turn her into a gimmick' And I was like 'Why not?!
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That might sound like a gimmick, but it underscores what the site is meant for.
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The company's latest gimmick is an AI powered personalized sticker feature, similar to Snapchat's Bitmoji.
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Still, while Gomez-Rejon's visual aesthetic is a bit of a gimmick, it's sometimes successful.
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Second screen gimmick — LG tacked a second screen on its V210 smartphone in late 21.
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Griffin makes a good USB-C cable without the magnetic gimmick for half the price.
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Hopefully, a smaller G5 can somehow turn a "meh" gimmick into a must-have feature.
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It seems like this is one of the areas where it's more than a gimmick.
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For everyone else this is a gimmick on a very good, way too expensive laptop.
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But even better than all of those things is Hardcore Henry's first-person filming gimmick.
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Lechler as emergency quarterback was a great gimmick to distract from his down year punting.
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The reason we don't complain about these failures is because the gimmick is too adorable.
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The central gimmick of the comic is that Karen is the cartoonist behind its creation.
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"Maybe this is just a marketing gimmick for a new album or tour," Democratic Sen.
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More than just a marketing gimmick, the novel became a source of tremendous town pride.
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As it turns out, we should all give praise to Reigns for his gimmick matches.
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Don't buy it, it's just another "smart" gimmick that ultimately adds more cost and complexity.
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As long as OCO remains the gimmick everyone loves to hate, it's not going anywhere.
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Her style thrills and the gimmick works wonders in the intimate confines of NXT arenas.
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In many individual images, the shift in perspective acts as little more than a gimmick.
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The gimmick seems to be that Flag can print photos in any shape, which, sure.
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I'll say this for venture capitalist Tim Draper: he is fully committed to the gimmick.
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Maybe I'm a cynic, but it felt like a PR gimmick, contrived to create hype.
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The then-majority Democrats used a controversial parliamentary gimmick to unilaterally reinterpret existing Senate rules.
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What started as a marketing gimmick has been replicated by rivals at home and abroad.
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Like the VM Houses, each design has its own gimmick, a one-liner of architecture.
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Click here to view original GIFIt's first and foremost a clever marketing gimmick for Columbia.
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Whether that's a gimmick or not is up for debate; this quartet is excellent regardless.
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"Ernst told THR he and Golykh "never intended for this to be a marketing gimmick.
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Not so long ago, the shot was seen as a gimmick, to be used sparingly.
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The only gimmick they used was becoming ABBA incarnate, mirroring the quartet to a tee.
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Be it resolved that the NHL dust off the celebrity captains gimmick again this year.
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The Broken Hardys gimmick helped propel the brothers to the status of beloved elder statesmen.
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You can't come to the conclusion that hot yoga is anything more than a gimmick.
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HTC has done itself a disservice banking on a goofy gimmick with its new flagship.
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It is a gimmick — it draws attention to voter alienation, but offers no real solution.
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Or maybe it's just a fun gimmick to get you posting more in News Feed.
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"It's just an enormous budget gimmick," said William Gale of the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
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Undoubtedly due to its association with children's rides, the format is dismissed as a gimmick.
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The format only feels like a gimmick when nothing is being offered to the audience.
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Azar as recently as last year called importation a "gimmick" that would not lower costs.
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This newest gimmick to corral reluctant senators is bad economic policy and bad tax policy.
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"It is a legislative magic trick, a sneaky gimmick designed to disguise their actions," Rep.
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Nothing about this goofy barista gimmick would seem out of place in, say, San Diego.
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What Mr. Giles hasn't yet managed to do in "Breeders" is transcend his cute gimmick.
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This might sound like a gimmick that the Internal Revenue Service could easily shut down.
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There will surely be the temptation, in certain corners, to call the game a gimmick.
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It's hard to imagine Being as anything more than just a fun gimmick right now.
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The devil's advocate gimmick slowly pushed him up the card to a respectable midcard run, then a winning streak over established stars and pairing him with Roddy Piper as his mentor, as a means of transitioning after the fun but limiting gimmick he returned with.
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Sure, it's a gimmick, but legislators might win approval ratings like they haven't seen in decades.
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Yep, the International House of Pancakes' switch from IHOP to IHOb wasn't just a marketing gimmick.
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With that kind of money, the guy whose campaign seemed like a gimmick was sticking around.
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Dawnya: Well, the account was made back when "takes" gimmick accounts were really hitting their stride.
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I don't know if it's a gimmick but cryptocurrency wasn't necessary to make that thing work.
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Every fan base is looking for some gimmick during the anthem and they are all stupid.
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Maybe you've got the secret to turning the U11's gimmick into something far more useful.
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Dillen described the offer as a "gimmick" that gets a lot of attention on social media.
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And when you see this big header thing, at first it definitely feels like a gimmick.
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Like Jackie Chan did with fist fights, Sheridan gives each new act of gunplay a gimmick.
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Now that I think about it, I only bought that game because of the character gimmick.
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Doug Carlston recalled that when he was first shown the software, it was an interesting gimmick.
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There, hidden beneath the MacBook Pro's flashiest gimmick, is something incredibly functional and natural to use.
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Dismissed by French educationalists as a gimmick, the school is a centre of training, not research.
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So yes, the clock's a gimmick, but that's pretty much how it was intended all along.
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In addition, the A7R III has another gimmick, a feature called PSMS (Pixel Shift Multi Shooting).
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He sees the mantra as "just a new gimmick" that allows governments to justify their behavior.
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And make no mistake – use of the word "clean" is not an exaggeration or marketing gimmick.
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The gimmick worked on these two occasions because it brought back two performers from the grave.
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So it's kind of a fun little gimmick to say this is a "tax-free" beer.
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So really AR is an added gimmick to help sell what are essentially entirely inessential items.
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"Capitalizing on his discomfort could help prevent the gimmick from surviving," the memo says of Frelinghuysen.
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It's just the latest financial gimmick that Uber has reached for in its unstoppable cash grab.
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The people behind The Bird seem to know a solid marketing gimmick when they see one.
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At least Ronny has a gimmick; Sia/Sita is a blank, the love interest, full stop.
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In the interview, Michael addressed criticism that his shying away from the media was a gimmick.
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With a last-ditch gimmick to get a "quick win" on repealing and replacing ObamaCare, Sen.
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Once the novelty of its attention-grabbing gimmick wears off, how will it keep an audience?
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But this started not with us trying to come up with a gimmick to improve sales.
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VR has that same capability to explore a world, but it must go beyond the gimmick.
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Being an "Apple person" or a "Windows person" is a marketing gimmick, not a personality trait.
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Not through some fucking gimmick or because I look cool or because my hair is cool.
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She did not, however, have the force of personality to escape the weight of her gimmick.
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I let myself forget the gimmick for a moment and enjoy myself, my heart rate rising.
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Sure, it sounds like a gimmick, but I can confirm the speakers are pretty darn good.
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To be honest, it's hard not to look at this as a bit of a gimmick.
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The ambivalent satire of "Turn It Off" has weakened into a gimmick, a crutch, a dodge.
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Even some who once felt that app-based banks were a gimmick have been won over.
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But in a new play, "Nassim," directed by Omar Elerian, he doubles down on the gimmick.
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He designs were progressive, the simplicity of them: "One gimmick per dress," he used to say.
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"So clearly what I got from him was this is not a gimmick," Mr. Chapin said.
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I should mention that the 100x zoom on the Galaxy S20 Ultra is a bad gimmick.
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I hope the gimmick doesn't reveal itself too early, and that solvers enjoy the end result.
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I wanted to try to bring new life to a familiar crossword gimmick with this puzzle.
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What started as a marketing gimmick 38 years ago has turned into a cornerstone of Americana.
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Although it's backed up by legitimate scientific and geopolitical analysis, the Doomsday Clock is a gimmick.
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I feel we put our personalities first before any gimmick and before any, you know, materialism.
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I feel we put our personalities first before any gimmick and before any, you know, materialism.
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"It didn't feel like a gimmick, and that's the beauty of it still," Ms. Park said.
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Even some who once felt that app-based banks were a gimmick have been won over.
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Even if some provision could be justified on its own merits, it was still a gimmick.
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They believe that sports teams, desperate to gain any edge, might be buying into a gimmick.
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Further testing may tell whether the screen is the future, or just a gimmick, it continued.
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Some people still ask if it is a gimmick, something to draw attention, but it's real.
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If you need a gimmick to sell to the people, you're obviously not a good band.
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Critics need to get a new gimmick because the "can Shyamalan redeem himself" angle is skewed.
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They were seen as a gimmick to sell more 1080p TVs without offering a superior viewing experience.
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I'm sure it's a perfectly fine platformer in 2D, but the 3D element wasn't just a gimmick.
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The Touch Bar debuted on MacBook Pro computers in 2016 and was widely panned as a gimmick.
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Or is it just another gimmick that'll soon be forgotten when the next fad diet comes along?
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If you've already watched the whole thing then the answer is yes, as the gimmick clearly worked.
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Because it was close to Halloween, she decided as a marketing gimmick to wear a bee costume.
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It's an expensive gimmick to have, one I'd rather replace with a lens capable of optical zoom.
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They're available in four colors (white, black, blue and red) and offer a no-gimmick audio experience.
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I didn't want it to just feel like a gimmick, because that would be thin and pointless.
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Every time it pulls this gimmick, it's going to remind people of the show's cheapest, dirtiest tricks.
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I was worried, especially as the map essentially doubled in complexity, that the gimmick would show wear.
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To Nixon he explained in 1967 that TV was no gimmick, but could make or break politicians.
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Smokovitz and Cady's classes teamed up and they started brainstorming a gimmick to raise the most funds.
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Contrasting glossy and matte textures have lost their gimmick and given way to a cold, solid heft.
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That's the year nobody was the obvious favorite to win the greatest gimmick match in WWE history.
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Speaking of basicness, nothing screams "millennial gimmick" quite like a latte served in a fucking avocado peel.
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But what lifts Divekick above mere gimmick is that its simple exterior hides a lot of depth.
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The iPhone 43s offered little more than the arguably useful 3D Touch and gimmick-filled Live Photos.
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Now that it's been done time and time again, the costume-as-protest gimmick is less clever.
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"I still don't consider us a political band—to me that's a gimmick, a shtick," Fisher says.
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Yes, it's a gimmick, but it makes plain how many lives were wasted during this tumultuous era.
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But the film's use of '70s-era music is more than just an advertising gimmick for Doritos.
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Drawing back a few of those eyeballs with a relevant gimmick can help a studio's bottom line.
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Join us as we decide if it's a gadget worth our time, or a gimmick worth forgetting.
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" He told The Straits Times: "This whole thing is just a gimmick, and it's all for fun.
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Other trompe l'oeils are more successful, especially when there's some sort of story to ground the gimmick.
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Grade: C I'm not one for Silicon Valley humor, but I appreciate three things about this gimmick.
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Disconnection has become the most congratulated, least convincing narrative gimmick of recent times, a widely excusable hypocrisy.
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He had to drink 'em to keep up his gimmick because Stone Cold throwing 'em to him.
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Surely. This gimmick does, however, bring to light the advancements being made in DIY photo-analysis software.
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She opened mail for his birthday, May 9, and laughed at gimmick cards that chirped out songs.
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Nah, that was just some bullshit gimmick, I mean real, artesanal Mezcal made by hand in Mexico.
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In response to that oversight, Rihanna said that she would not use trans women as a gimmick.
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Or more accurately, you remember the gimmick, because that's what you always remember from the New Generation.
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Sam Donaldson: The "add-a-sound" gimmick isn't novel, so the challenge here was in the details.
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She got through it, shedding the gimmick like you'd shed any other bad job for better things.
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MJD definitely has a strong point of view ... blaming Kelly's "gimmick offense" for destroying the Philadelphia Eagles.
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We didn't do this because we thought it'd be a good gimmick, it was out of necessity.
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The big picture: Robot food runners may seem like a gimmick to get diners through the door.
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When you give a gimmick a long leash and racism for fuel, this is what you get.
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Twelve brand is a "gimmick" that tastes "medicinal" and "industrial," according to scathing whiskey reviewer on YouTube.
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Scott rarely is), and it wasn't particularly elegant (it was too much of a gimmick for that).
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Just a gimmick, nothing really relevant to the plot, just something you'd consider very natural during dialogue.
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Stephen Thompson was once a gimmick, riding a hype train that had fans gleefully anticipating its derailment.
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ELISABETH VINCENTELLI An "Oklahoma!" with same-sex lovers might seem to have "gimmick" written all over it.
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That's what comes with making a puzzle with such a specific gimmick — your options are surprisingly limited.
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For the last few years, "wearables" have been more of a gimmick than of any lasting utility.
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This isn't a groundbreaking gimmick, as Mr. Fagliano freely admits in his notes, but it's very fun.
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What began as a marketing gimmick in 1987 has turned into a unifying force for the city.
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It was a gimmick to encourage the players: Keep pushing the wheel in hopes of a breakthrough.
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But a gimmick doesn't get you very far if your main character is as drab as Pete.
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The circular imagery is apt for a play whose gimmick derives from concepts of curved space-time.
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However, most of the food served at the Cube puts flavor and gimmick on roughly equal footing.
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But several of the couples who married there that day did not see it as a gimmick.
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"It was not 'let's come up with a gimmick for a TV show,' " Ms. Mallozzi, 37, said.
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Now a gimmick, it was a farseeing strategy when Junya Watanabe tried it over a decade ago.
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And it appears to be the clearest demonstration yet of how the trend isn't just a gimmick.
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"It was not 'let's come up with a gimmick for a TV show,' " Ms. Mallozzi, 37, said.
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Phenotype's levels are not exclusively designed around sheer luck, but gimmick stages are part of their repertoire.
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Fiscal hawks have characterized OCO as a slush fund or budget gimmick to get around spending caps.
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"Mocking people who misuse science is a really useful gimmick for communicating how science works," he said.
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I'm not writing off the future for smart jackets, but for now it's nothing but a stylish gimmick.
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Unlike other prop replicas that have a technological gimmick, MRG's prop doesn't appear to be a cheapy grab.
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While it offers the most extreme view of the of three, to me, it's kind of a gimmick.
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A lot of it's a gimmick, but exercise is something that sorta has to be looked at longitudinally.
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I'm thinking of every body-swap film from the 80s, and replacing the adult gimmick with a Superhero.
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It was a gimmick for attracting shoppers, casting a silhouette of a ventriloquist's dummy from across the room.
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McNeill dismissed Uber Pro as a "gimmick" that stratifies drivers into different categories and then rewards high-performers.
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Next time build a great, gimmick-free phone and sell it at hundreds less than Samsung or Apple.
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Those quotes aren't a sarcastic qualifier; they're meant to mark "primetime" as what it is, another TV gimmick.
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The depositions-and-excerpts gimmick was a political compromise reflecting the internal dynamics of the GOP Senate majority.
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The gimmick is part of Three and ZTE's #MagicTogether campaign, which is launching the ZTE Blade V7 phone.
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So, are vibrating rollers or handheld tools really worth it or are they an overpriced social media gimmick?
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With him, cooking is an art not a science, there's no need to give a dish a gimmick.
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GE of all companies just sent me some insanely spicy hot sauce as part of a marketing gimmick.
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This gimmick-free brand is on the brink of something big — and new packaging is just the start.
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When he broke his nose and required a Rip Hamilton mask, it became a part of his gimmick.
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Now everyone feels like they need a gimmick and you really don't—just make good, hearty beautiful food.
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This one looks more suited for an elderly user who'd see the mosquito gimmick as a valuable addition.
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But I still found it to be mostly a gimmick and turned it off after a few days.
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Sane does a pirate in sequins gimmick, coming to the ring with a ship's wheel and admiral's hat.
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Barnard says the blind sending is a gimmick — "but it's also interesting on a deeper level," he says.
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It's a gorgeous device, but its hallmark feature could also come off like a gimmick at first glance.
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At one point he battled some schlub named Mark Calaway, who'd later find his gimmick as The Undertaker.
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When I met Barran I suspected that the minister of loneliness portfolio was a bit of a gimmick.
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Critics see the park as a dangerous, even cruel, gimmick contrived for adrenaline junkies raised on reality television.
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This is why weighted blankets aren't the gimmick their simplicity – and zeitgeist enthusiasm – may suggest to the uninitiated.
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They felt a fairly obscure theme answer would throw many solvers, as there was already a difficult gimmick.
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The Democrats used a parliamentary gimmick and set the Senate on the slippery slope it now struggles with.
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"Once More" perfectly demonstrated why the best "gimmick" episodes are those that propel the plot and characters forward.
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Sharon Stone falsely claims to have attended Rolling Thunder wearing a KISS sweatshirt and inspiring Dylan's kabuki gimmick.
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She's fully taken over the show's signature gimmick, routinely breaking the fourth wall to address the audience directly.
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Users have even slammed the Touch Bar as simply a gimmick, and the handy MagSafe is long gone.
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If anything, this integration is more of a gimmick to promote Oprah's holiday list and Amazon's Echo speakers.
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One of the challenges I gave him used the gimmick behind this puzzle's theme, but in narrative form.
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But the newest contender for the title of dumbest MMA gimmick has got to be Team Fighting Championship.
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A White House gimmick to drum up support for the Republican Obamacare replacement plan may have backfired, bigly.
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At first, this struck me as a gimmick, because the work seemed so indebted to earlier art movements.
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The second half is a sequence of exceptional sushi, sliced and seasoned in the gimmick-free Edo manner.
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It feels like a gimmick, like This Is Us is jumping around in time just to do it.
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"We did not want to make a gimmick beer," said Phil Boyle, the general manger and an owner.
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Two, how GRRRL members would react to the notion that their group could be seen as a gimmick.
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If you're the novice screenwriter Dwain Worrell, you introduce a gimmick: a sniper who really wants to talk.
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The "see no evil, hear no evil" strategy isn't actually a defense; it's a gimmick and a stunt.
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When it comes to "As Seen On TV" products, many of them can seem like a total gimmick.
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The underpinning notion — a gimmick, you might say — was that her back remained turned to the audience throughout.
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But at its best, the flashback-heavy, nonlinear storytelling of "This Is Us" is more than a gimmick.
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Flake also said his support came after a $85 billion "budget gimmick" was removed from the bill. Sen.
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Sounds like a New-Agey gimmick until you find out who receives it: babies born addicted to opioids.
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It's a funny gimmick, but no ISP is currently selling this kind of raw data on individual subscribers.
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Zimride evolved into Lyft, which initially used the gimmick of fuzzy bubblegum-colored mustaches to distinguish its service.
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No, the beer is a bit of a gimmick and a bit of a social experiment as well.
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It's like a smaller version of the Instax Square SQ10 from two years ago, with a new added gimmick.
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The "showtune magician" gimmick was meant to solidify Blake's Broadway cred—but instead made him seem like an imposter.
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So far, those features have always sounded better on paper than in practice and mostly felt like a gimmick.
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You might think airline rewards programs are just a gimmick, but they're quite useful if you do your research.
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This story is about the end of stories, and usually in comics, that's just a gimmick before a reboot.
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Cheng is a drunk, and, because Danny needs to fight someone with a gimmick, a master of drunken boxing.
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Switching between cameras was fast and easy, as was swiping over to get to Samsung's kajillion photo gimmick settings.
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There is one gimmick that in theory I should be excited about but in practice I'm just not: DeX.
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Even the 3-point shot was once considered a gimmick, but now it's an essential part of the game.
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But right now, the feature is still firmly in gimmick territory and as such goes unmentioned in this review.
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Expounding on the possibilities of empathy may be commendable, but it can feel like a corny gimmick, even naivety.
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He was married, and he loved the idea of having this affair, and I fell into the whole gimmick.
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That sounds a bit like a PR gimmick but Starbucks deserves credit for its efforts on a broad front.
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It's mostly a gimmick, but it sounds like it could be fun now and then for Instagram and Snapchat.
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Up until now, the commission says, social media has been used as either a gimmick or a branding opportunity.
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But with great usability, stellar hardware, and features that avoid the "gimmick" graveyard, the Robin is an amazing 1.
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"OPEC needs a gimmick to raise prices to over $50," Fereidun Fesharaki, chairman of energy consultancy FGE, told CNBC.
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Even if this specific gimmick doesn't make much sense for other shows, the underlying concept is a smart idea.
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When the reps at Vizio first displayed the new remote, they seemed proud—and I was worried about gimmick.
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Fraught with audio problems, I had to ask myself if the Mindframe's FrostCap tech is a gimmick or not.
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Makeup brand Laqa & Co. just introduced a new lipstick collection that's loaded with avo — but it's not a gimmick.
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Democrats "are using DACA as a marketing gimmick to get an amnesty for all illegal immigrants," says Mr Krikorian.
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With annual iterations, Samsung was able to turn what was once considered a gimmick into an iconic signature design.
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The obvious difference being that these are tracked in-game so there's something actually being delivered beyond the gimmick.
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I thought maybe it's a gimmick by the doctors to highlight their programs, but I think I was wrong.
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Whatever the case, CastAR will need a niche, because in 2016, magic is no longer a good enough gimmick.
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You own a PS4 because you just knew that Kinect would never amount to anything more than a gimmick.
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But it's a complete marketing gimmick, and that's what's so frustrating and a huge inspiration for making the film.
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For that matter, the endless repetition of the same day recalls Groundhog Day, which found poignancy in the gimmick.
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The gimmick: They all have the same birthday, so the Hallmark vibe of the pilot kind of makes sense.
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The country's economy was also bolstered by the import of new aircraft for international leasing activities, another financial gimmick.
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This camera might seem like a gimmick, but Asus actually created some really thoughtful experiences around this unique feature.
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This isn't the first time a Trump-inspired bathroom gimmick has been used to raise money for charitable purposes.
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Now it's a program bumper title and just a gimmick to hold your attention through the mind numbing commercials.
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But it might come as a disappointment, especially for those who have dismissed the Touch Bar as a gimmick.
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It was a bit of a gimmick, but — minus ridiculous branding — the shoes themselves actually aren't all that bad.
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One C.O. got hip to my little gimmick and wrote me up for disturbing the count at roll call.
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Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley told MSNBC that the Corker concession was "an absolute gimmick" that could be undermined later.
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It may sound like a gimmick, but these are FDIC-insured accounts backed by Blue Ridge Bank in Virginia.
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NBA players are scared, major events are being canceled ... and strip clubs are using it as a marketing gimmick.
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It was a promotional gimmick that badly misfired, but the backlash has revealed deeper fault lines in Australian society.
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However, it seems like it could have been more of a data collection scheme than just an advertising gimmick.
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We'll not give the gimmick away here, but it is largely responsible for earning the film its R rating.
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But critics called the idea a budget gimmick that would likely reduce the amount that people save for retirement.
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Well, it's a nifty marketing gimmick and a chance for each woman to display her collarbones and her range.
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The restrictions the chef imposes might sound like a gimmick, but in his hands, it is an organizing principle.
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Google surely wants Jacquard to be more than a gimmick, but at this stage, it kind of still is.
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It used the one-take gimmick and looked fantastic, yes, but it was so much more than that trick.
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It still can't play Netflix, but the Switch has proven itself to be much more than another Nintendo gimmick.
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If the day comes when computers replace comics, this double act — an inspired gimmick — may be the turning point.
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To restart this special interest tax gimmick — particularly under the guise of simplifying the code — is irresponsible and wasteful.
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I loved the groovy 1960s look of the cover, but I worried it would be all gimmick, no charm.
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That doesn't make sense, but the timing of the gimmick and pacing of its execution made it feel right.
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Though her reticence toward fame has lent her career a marketable mystique, "It's not a gimmick," Mr. Jarjour said.
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The plan was initially dismissed as a toothless gimmick, one that would do little to advance the #MeToo movement.
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It runs the risk being perceived as a Photoshop gimmick and, for this reason, is often eschewed by artists.
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It's got drones instead of nukes, and the gimmick is that viewer interacts with the story to shape it.
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Not in his gimmick, which boils down to The Mean Quebecois Guy, but for the way he got here.
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More importantly, they weaved time travel into their gameplay, instead of simply offering the device as a story gimmick.
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Up until this year, AR has always been a clumsy gimmick, poorly implemented and mostly useless beyond the initial novelty.
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Patricia R. Richards, the chief executive of Intermountain's insurance unit, SelectHealth, said its new effort was not a marketing gimmick.
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It's too early to determine if the Touch Bar on Apple's new MacBook Pro is a gimmick or truly innovative.
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Said concept also needs to prove it's more than just a gimmick, which could take a few generations of development.
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The gimmick: a young female questions three males, hidden from her view, to determine which would be the best date.
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But even that's probably overthinking things: This is just another gimmick and it's silly to treat it as anything else.
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LG's V40 ThinQ is a speedy well-functioning phone even if the five cameras is a bit of a gimmick.
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Plus, this little gimmick might get more people to try Domino's again after they may have been eating another brand.
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One software enhancement that is present focuses on accentuating last year's hardware gimmick, the sloped sides of the Edge line.
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For one, it's difficult to stand out as a streamer, so having a gimmick helps you fight through the noise.
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Taco Bell's latest gimmick: Taco Bell is opening a pop-up hotel called The Bell in Palm Springs in August.
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Back to that SPF 100 sunscreen: Anything over SPF 50 is more of a marketing gimmick than a superior sunshield.
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And the net effect of these misinterpretations called to mind the Men in Black (MIB) movie franchise's iconic neuralyzer gimmick.
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A good gimmick, on the other hand, is one that actually brings something to the experience of owning a phone.
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The mission may seem like a gimmick, but the point is to test out a significant capability for World View.
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I didn't test it much during my drive, but it seems more like a gimmick than an actually useful application.
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The move by NBC may be a bit of a gimmick — after all, the extra programming on leap day, Feb.
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"We're seeing a return to the expert, where the use of product is based on performance, not gimmick," Kendall says.
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The "waterfall screen" may end up a total gimmick, but it looks futuristic AF like everything else the company's trying.
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Brush aside the goofy internet memes and silly video game antics, the Storm Area 51 gimmick is pretty clever marketing.
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But if you don't carve out some kind of public profile beyond the gimmick, your spotlight will swiftly go out.
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It stuck around just long enough to make use of its gimmick, before realizing it was time to move on.
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Though wine-infused cosmetics err heavily on the side of marketing gimmick, brands know Instagram's a sucker for novelty packaging.
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But whether or not it's a gimmick right now, it's still an interesting peak at the future of Amazon shopping.
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As a first-time CES attendee, the gimmick worked on me: What could be more CES than pole-dancing robots?
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At its heart, the Axon M is an average phone with one (admittedly compelling) gimmick to justify its flagship price.
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As a nice gimmick, viewers inside a replay can even interact with certain items, for example grabbing a glow stick.
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Fan voting was a gimmick for TV designed to engage viewers, not an accepted A&R technique for record labels.
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The company's V-series hasn't performed either, with many calling the V10 and V20's tiny secondary screen a gimmick.
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Others accused Mr. Ernst, a producer, of using Dean, the star of "Rebel Without a Cause," as a marketing gimmick.
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But lawmakers in both parties rejected that as a gimmick that doesn't provide the military the budget stability it needs.
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"It's a gimmick," said Chris Preble, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute.
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But, to my surprise, I was delighted by what I had taken for pure gimmick: the pickle-flavored soft serve.
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Everyone called it a gimmick, but when something becomes stale — as smartphones have — people will start looking for something new.
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It was a great heel gimmick, one that had him beating up beloved stars like Mick Foley and Sgt. Slaughter.
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This year, Trump's budget called for turbocharging defense spending by increasing it to $750 billion, mostly through a budget gimmick.
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One customer "thought quarter-sizing was a joke or gimmick until I tried the 10.25s," Airbnb designer Bryce Daniel tweeted.
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In fact, he's arguably the reason to watch Raw right now, with the hottest feud and the best gimmick going.
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So that's their gimmick that they're coming in with, and then of course they realize, that they can't do that.
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Dunkirk is immersive, but it's still definitely an old-school movie that doesn't benefit from the added gimmick of 270D.
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A gimmick, granted, but still clever, when you live on an island with unlimited amounts of raging thermic energy underground.
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As the experiment got publicity, some wondered if it was a marketing gimmick, but Ms. Gill maintained it was not.
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They call him Garnet Thor, and he's taken an odd path to the N.F.L., but Hurst is not a gimmick.
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The show proves that when used methodically and with judicious intent, such pioneering technology is far from a mere gimmick.
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Some journalists accused the group of using Ms. Lantree, who dressed stylishly and sported a beehive hairdo, as a gimmick.
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In the clip put out by the fast food restaurant, Popeyes shows customers how to go along with the gimmick.
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According to a write-up in The Guardian, Dion's superhero-like skills aren't limited to just one gimmick or hook.
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Loeb signed off with a cyrptic "To be continued," a gimmick taken right out of the comic book storytelling playbook.
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Of course, that won't happen, and yes, it seems silly to ask for it, just a kind of rhetorical gimmick.
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To file her music next to your average "net art" gimmick is to do her undeniable talents a disservice, though.
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Meanwhile, the business operations of the press have used the pretense of conflict with the Trump administration as a gimmick.
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"It's a bit of a gimmick to be able to say it," that theirs was the last expedition, Larsen says.
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"The claim that she is the largest white shark in the world is just a Discovery Channel gimmick," Domeier added.
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The problem is that when I look past the gimmick, #WarGames is not very good when compared to any other show in this genre on TV or Netflix, and when I focus on the gimmick, #WarGames is not a very good piece of interactive entertainment compared any number of video games I'm currently playing.
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Playlist LADIES AND GENTLEMEN Sometimes a gimmick — or call it a concept — is just what a band needs to outdo itself.
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A flexible touch screen might breathe some new life into the concept, or it could just end up as a gimmick.
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Beyond the gimmick to make the less impressive among us sound better, the Sonogenic is just a straight, very cool, keytar.
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It's essential because, without some thought and planning, nudity is just a gimmick whose novelty fades by the second water break.
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What makes Snapchat think this same cash-strapped demographic will spend more than double for what sounds like another novel gimmick?
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Well, based on what we know so far, the Fitbit of fornicating seems more like a gimmick than a useful tool.
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If you're reading this, you probably already know the core hardware gimmick by now, but if not, here's the short version.
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It's just realistic enough to seem uncanny and cheap, which makes the whole experience easy to dismiss as a throwaway gimmick.
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" He adds: "This isn't a fundraising gimmick — it's the transparency and honesty I have promised you since I entered this race.
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Maggiore says most customers buy the weapon as a gimmick then discover it works, and then they become addicted to it.
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The New York Times's season preview called the shot a "gimmick" in its headline and twice in the first two paragraphs.
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These design elements make the new Spectacles look less like a gimmick, and more like a legitimate pair of quality sunglasses.
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Now here's the gimmick: the U11 has pressure sensitive areas on its sides that can respond to a one-handed squeeze.
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Because V-Moda's first bluetooth speaker is also a headphone amp, and it's not the gimmick I expected it to be.
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I went in with an open mind; I'm not jaded enough to have outright dismissed Labo as some silly, overpriced gimmick.
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Not every show can pull off a black & white gimmick like this, but it certainly makes sense for The Twilight Zone.
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This is perhaps why Paige's interest in Christianity in earlier seasons didn't feel like a gimmick designed to develop her character.
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But he now needs to persuade people that the consultation is not just a gimmick, while not jeopardising his reform programme.
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Legion, in its tenure, reached narrative gimmick immunity, a status shared perhaps only by Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Man Seeking Woman.
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Melenchon, 65, is using the gimmick to help himself stand out in a highly contentious French election that begins on Sunday.
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Still, there's some pleasure in earnestly buying into the narrative behind Ghenov's work rather than dismissing it as a conceptual gimmick.
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It reeked of trying too hard, of using a gimmick to explain a plot development that the show didn't really earn.
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While I initially thought their lanky screens were a gimmick, they ended up being a draw that kept bringing me back.
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The consensus these days, especially after Samsung launched its excellent Galaxy Note7, is that curved screens are not just a gimmick.
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The guy who originally argued with WeRateDogs because he didn't get their gimmick just got a dog and they rated it.
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The G27-specific Assistant commands are pretty limited and a mixed bag, so it’s still kind of a gimmick.
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I will say, whenever we have these new technologies, you're always looking for what's not the gimmick, what isn't just marketing.
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Just this week in China, useless robotic waiters forced the closure of two restaurants where they'd been employed as a gimmick.
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This is the latest promotional gimmick from the fast-food chain, which has been drumming up buzz around its experimental boxes.
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There's a storytelling gimmick early in the season in which Fisk appears as Murdock's evil conscience, goading Murdock to kill him.
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It looks like another flexible keyboard, and those have been around as a fun gimmick from novelty technology stores for years.
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Bronze: Like everyone else, I am a sucker for Miami's turnover chain, the best new gimmick in college football this season.
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For example, Midwestern innkeepers devised a sweet gimmick this holiday season with the West Michigan Bed & Breakfast Christmas Cookie Tour (MLive.com).
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Perhaps the French word substitution gimmick played more difficult than expected for Will's test solvers, thereby bumping the puzzle to Thursday.
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Not because it's the right thing to do fiscally, but because it's the Washington gimmick needed to get tax reform done.
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Rougeau had to ditch the gimmick because (the story goes) the Canadian government didn't like the portrayal of mounties as heels.
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If the "Bandersnatch" format ever moves from gimmick to mainstream, you should expect custom-tailored pirating techniques to move with it.
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It's modularity should be a selling point, but with the lack of modules it just ends up feeling like a gimmick.
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Dawson said they should have gone for a triangular one instead because it's more of a gimmick that sets it apart.
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He has a gimmick, on vocals and guitar, where he strings together snatches of sixty-four Beatles songs, in six minutes.
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"People don't know a lot about the Libertarian Party, so they assume their positions are convenient or a gimmick," Devine said.
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Flake said he also got GOP leaders to eliminate what he called an "$85 billion expensing budget gimmick" from the bill.
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The Broken gimmick was and is brilliant, the pro wrestling version of the bonk on the head gag of yesteryear's cartoons.
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"I would say one out of every three times that I step onto a photo shoot, it's a gimmick," she says.
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However, the grassy knoll wasn't a total gimmick like the Marlins Playskool Fish Party home run disaster, for one main reason.
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Though the beer mile has brought him the vast majority of his attention and fame, racing isn't a gimmick to him.
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Die Antwoord isn't an act that warrants much overthinking, but they're also proving once and for all that they're no gimmick.
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White is the champion, a New Zealander who nabbed a choice gimmick in the Switchblade, a leather-clad, cold-blooded badass.
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Such deals have become the music industry's favorite new sales gimmick, used by everyone from Metallica and Arcade Fire to Pink.
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And while these videos typically rack up millions and millions of YouTube views, the whole gimmick is getting a bit stale.
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The gimmick forces Jenny to confront how she's acquiesced to indulging racist gimmicks, despite being the proud daughter of immigrant parents.
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Some policy analysts, however, dismiss tax holidays as a gimmick that distracts from the establishment of more equitable sales tax policies.
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"Instead of a tell-all it is a conventional memoir with a gimmick," wrote Janet Maslin, a critic for The Times.
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The gimmick was an instant hit, prompting Ms. Johnson-Thares to start sewing more elaborate tails by hand, sometimes incorporating lace.
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Her mother, Gayal Black, has acknowledged that she named her daughters after storms as a marketing gimmick for their presumed stardom.
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More from Consumer Reports: How To Stop Snoring The Do's and Don'ts of Bike Helmet CareSleep Tracker: gimmick or great gadget?
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Usually, some sort of gimmick is featured that early-week solvers might have great difficulty figuring out, such as a rebus.
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I can remember the excitement when someone finally figured out the "gimmick," but our procrastination skills certainly exceeded our solving skills.
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The final gimmick is that the three must decide who gets which share, and, again, the amounts shrink as they debate.
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"It's that age-old gimmick that Congress always does when there's something that's unpleasant, they push it way out," Antos said.
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Usually, that means sacrificing power — so often the guiding principle for new video game hardware — in favor of a new gimmick.
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Wall Street investing experts love a good gimmick, and Ryan Detrick, the senior market strategist at LPL Financial, is no exception.
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What could seem like a gimmick with another artist (or with like, say, parkour) becomes a moral conundrum with Mr. Bourgeois.
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It&aposs an incredible gimmick that comes with an equally incredible price: the 65-inch model starts at a whopping $60,000.
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Keats understands how some might see the slime-mold professor as a gimmick (though, hey, it got me on the phone).
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Is it just an emoji-based gimmick, or are emoji destined to become a language in its own right after all?
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" The secretary's comments are a far cry from what he said about importation a year ago -- when he called it a "gimmick.
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Now critics might claim the Fund for America's Kids and Grandkids is a gimmick because it doesn't immediately pay down the deficit.
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There may not be too many more gimmick matches they can challenge as firsts, but they'll make all of them their own.
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It was a gimmick then as it is now, but at least here the company didn't build the entire phone around it.
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The tablet controller only worked about 15 feet away from the home base console, and it seemed like just another odd gimmick.
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As a crude gimmick for showing blurred-out B-roll of boobs, this is about as clever as The Man Show gets.
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It's worth asking why anyone would want a 3603-degree camera when 360-degree footage has always mostly felt like a gimmick.
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VICE Games: There are a lot of gimmick accounts on social media because people are constantly trying to fight through the noise.
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You know those gimmick-based dating shows about people going on dates naked, or in the dark, or with some other twist?
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Of course, those handsets are also great examples of how a good gimmick alone isn't enough to make a phone a success.
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But snail mucus isn't just a gimmick to sell products — it's actually one hard-working ingredient that works for all skin types.
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T-Mobile U.S. boss John Legere loves a good marketing gimmick and his latest one may be the oddest and most endearing.
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Like just about every other gimmick in smartphoneland, the idea has been tried and abandoned more times than anyone cares to mention.
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There were other cowboy wrestlers that came after, but they were mostly old guys working the same gimmick they had for ages.
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At its best, wearing black is a fashion gimmick that doesn't match the significance and consideration of the other Time's Up initiatives.
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And in a crowded market for budget handsets, you can't blame Alcatel for trying to find a gimmick — no matter how slim.
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As far as I can tell, Meizu's current response is to go its own way and churn out solid, gimmick-free devices.
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Disney's 2012 film Wreck-It Ralph proved that a movie based on video game nostalgia could actually be more than a gimmick.
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I'm pretty skeptical about how well season two of Westworld will go, since season one relied so heavily on a narrative gimmick.
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"I don't consider this a gimmick, but rather a crucial part of the mobility ecosystem," said Sam Abuelsamid, an analyst at Navigant.
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The appearance of the candy brand's tagline then reveals the gimmick to anyone who might have actually thought the meltdown was real.
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All this raises the question: Can Creator actually make money, or will it become another overhyped gimmick propped up by VC funding?
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If I were looking for a job, I would apply to be the site's Bacon Critic, a real publicity gimmick, er, gig.
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The Switch did what Nintendo does best—it wasn't too expensive, it offered a single gimmick, and it has some great games.
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Those might be practical uses for an internet-connected surfboard, but it's really just a marketing gimmick we can all laugh at.
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A third Rusev jobber, Xavier Woods, joined the main roster in 2013 and simply borrowed the funk-dancing gimmick of another wrestler.
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It could also be that voice control is still too much of a gimmick, especially when your phone is attached to you.
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KKB might sound like a cute gimmick, but their rapidly increasing popularity is testament to their attention blippy, J-pop style tunes.
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Still, Slain's commitment to the idea — and my personal experience using the app — proves Flowstate's signature feature is not a simple gimmick.
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The gimmick belongs to them, but at the most basic level creative control reverts to the most famous person in the shot.
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The gimmick raised $7 billion over 10 years for the highway fund, but it proved devastating for small and medium-size banks.
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Because this episode ends like it began: on a cheap, transparent gimmick intend to shock the show's loyal audience, and nothing more.
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At that point, the winner's tax plan will seem less like a campaign gimmick and more like a promise to be kept.
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You are correct to use the vaccine concept here—treatment with this bacterial gimmick would be intended to generate an immune response.
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It's a gimmick by which to exploit the tragedy in Greece in order to massage the consciences of some people from Documenta.
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He'd go from territory to territory on a loop, never staying anywhere too long, and he'd work his gimmick to bloody perfection.
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In recent years, bigger phone screens have made one-handed keyboards less of a gimmick, and more of a straightforwardly useful idea.
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I won't say this Bing thing is worthless, but it does kind of feel like a gimmick, at least at this stage.
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Feel this is only a gimmick and not sure Snoop has an actual future in hockey commentary, game-day opps or coaching?
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It is a pretty fun gimmick, for sure, and one that college students will probably use a few times to many lols.
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Downward Dog's gimmick didn't even have the decency to be wacky — which is, ironically, part of what made the show so special.
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Not only is it surprisingly similar to the original, it might be the first foldable phone that's more than just a gimmick.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, on the other hand, dismissed the general idea as a "gimmick" in a speech Monday.
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He insisted that his dish — which he dubbed Harmony Nasi Lemak — is not a gimmick and will be on his menu permanently.
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It's not that the subjects, three black seventh graders whose musical style is primarily enjoyed by white audiences, are working a gimmick.
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Not enough consumers went for the gimmick and the lava-lamp-resembling drink was discontinued within one year, according to Time magazine.
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Rothy's recycled water bottle shoes are far from a gimmick — in fact, they're some of the best work-appropriate flats out there.
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"They're really mostly just a political gimmick," said Meg Wiehe, state tax policy director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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Gimmick or not, people are coming up with all kinds of weird things to do with the new MacBook Pro's Touch Bar.
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I'm more into writing themed puzzles, but occasionally I'll write a Saturday with a minitheme or special gimmick, just to surprise solvers.
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I chalked it up to a sales gimmick, but the burnt orange color dubbed "Golden Hour" is ideal for my skin tone.
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"That's rubbed a lot of people in baseball the wrong way and makes you think maybe this is a gimmick," Phillips said.
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So while the gimmick is strong — students exercise in a room fitted to look like a jail cell — so is the purpose.
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One is always in search of the latest gimmick and the other has produced some of the most stunning in recent memory.
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The main issue, then, is what we're left with when faced with a "gimmick" band whose style far outweighs their musical substance.
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Mick Foley probably has grounds for a lawsuit over gimmick infringement with the sock maneuver, but kudos on a surprisingly decent piledriver.
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"He later said: "I'm not sure what more there is to say about it but it's just a facade, it's a gimmick.
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I ultimately decided to just go with "Mustered," but I thought it would be fun to create a puzzle using that gimmick.
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One digitally-realized aub undoes itself into an endless loop of smaller aubs, mimicking the self-contained gimmick of Russian nesting dolls.
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In the end, I decided to place the emoticon dead center and use the other theme entries to hint at the gimmick.
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The Note 10 Plus does a million things, some of which manage to rise above the level of the typical Samsung gimmick.
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These are companies that aren't breaking any laws but have built their business model around a gimmick that annoys and fleeces customers.
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She's achieved all this not with some ephemeral debate moment gimmick, but by campaigning well and being relatable, substantive and, yes, likable.
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Jessica Lange staggers down the aisle, participating in Castle's gimmick with a tragic mixture of irritation, embarrassment and stiff-upper-lip professionalism.
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Of course, the gimmick with the film is the digital de-aging technology the 3 stars were put through -- especially De Niro.
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"PETA urges travelers to stay away from any business that exploits animals for a money-grabbing gimmick," he said in a statement.
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In an interview with Psychology Today that same year, Mr. Conron acknowledged that the "doodle" name was "a gimmick" that went global.
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"It isn't new, isn't unique, isn't, in fact, much more than a desperate gimmick," grumbled one journalist on local news website Newsroom.
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Whether that public-relations gesture had any effect, or if it just came off as a gimmick, is a matter of conjecture.
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Especially the gimmick of having Ben Stein reading from the first chapter of Adam Smith's dull economic text, The Wealth of Nations.
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Though something of a gimmick, once lit up the giant candle slowly and sentimentally consumes itself over the span of the exhibition.
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The biggest change — and the biggest gimmick — is that you can squeeze the sides of the Pixel 2 to launch the Google Assistant.
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That approach extends to a secondary theme: whether the pot beat is just a gimmick, a desperate effort to attract attention and readers.
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But what happens when the gimmick on a character-light show is specifically designed to highlight the depth of one of your characters?
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While you can still tell that the artificial lighting effects aren't perfectly realistic, they're miles ahead of any other camera gimmick we've seen.
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Named Edge Sense when it launched with the U21 earlier this year, Google has adopted the side squeezing gimmick for its own flagship.
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Zach Wen, the restaurant&aposs co-founder, said the dish isn&apost just a gimmick and he hopes it spreads a positive message.
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The iPhone 63 Plus has a new software feature in beta called Portrait Lighting, a gimmick in my opinion, but a fun one.
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The breakup shtick seemed like too much of a gimmick when Kermit and Miss Piggy did it in the revamped Muppets TV show.
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"The general public is clamoring for longer, more engaging, AAA experiences in VR while simultaneously accusing it of being a gimmick," he says.
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While in the past he's found fault with television shows that made light of forgetfulness, he didn't find the Shazam gimmick particularly egregious.
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Captured bears, often tethered by chains, regularly appear on the streets of Russian cities as part of advertising campaigns or as gimmick attractions.
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While the Whopper cryptocurrency is a bit of a gimmick, customers can still trade and transfer the coins, just like any other cryptocurrency.
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For starters, the Z is a solid piece of hardware, an object lesson in the fact that you can't rest on gimmick alone.
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In the N.F.L., all coaches work with roughly the same amount of talent, while no one has a gimmick sked to pad results.
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Mr Modi, who before taking office dismissed Aadhaar as a "political gimmick", has been right to seize on its potential to transform India.
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"The COGS loophole for BEAT is a straightforward gimmick, but I am unsure how or whether the IRS will stop it," he said.
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The clock is a gimmick, a symbolic threat assessment made by a panel of experts at the nonprofit Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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The Curved TV Gimmick Might Finally Be DeadIf you weren't watching Samsung's TV event and LG press conference you might have missed it.
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So, it may be a kind of a debate or maybe it is just a gimmick to get us to talk about it.
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The Twilight Zone going black & white could just be a one-off gimmick, but I'd rather look at it as a trial balloon.
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A night mode does an okay job at combining multiple exposures to restore detail, but the portrait modes are a single-use gimmick.
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But honestly, when Sony sent me a set of headphones with a throwback "Bass Boost" button, I thought it was a silly gimmick.
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The central gimmick of Searching – it's a missing-person thriller played out entirely on smartphone and computer screens – might seem cheesy at first.
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The golden rule of Eurovision is that literally anything goes – and the more outrageous your gimmick, the better chance you have of winning.
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Every wrestler had a gimmick: ethnicity or nationality, the personas of cowboys, lumberjacks or farmers, and sports reporters went along with the fun.
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The all-new TalkBand B3 keeps the gimmick of its predecessor: the wristband's screen / brain pops out and works as a Bluetooth headset.
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But the BJP and some women's rights activists dismissed the proposal as a gimmick before the election to be held in early 2020.
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At the same time, this particular food's supporters frequently tout its health benefits, while naysayers claim it's little more than a marketing gimmick.
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This isn't just an accounting gimmick — it's part of a strategy of "additionality" to make direct real-world changes to the power grid.
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The mince pie flat white has descended upon our hot drinks menus; turning this bastion of tradition into little more than a gimmick.
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If it doesn't, the studios can always try the other big gimmick that's always sold comics: heroes forced to team up with villains.
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It's still a gimmick here, but unlike the U11, Google didn't go out of its way to build the phone around the feature.
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Prancing around art galleries with a laser in your butt could be seen as silly, or a cheap gimmick to demand viewers' attention.
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Even the Echo was not an immediate hit with reviewers, some of whom wondered whether it might be little more than a gimmick.
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But the hike comes through a tactic that Democrats have denounced as a "gimmick" they believe will allow damaging cuts to domestic programs.
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Far from being a mere gimmick, it is a highly evocative and transporting piece of electronic music, alternately ambient, glitchy, and interestingly rhythmic.
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But independent research suggests the technique has less effect than claimed and may be more a gimmick than a true advantage for investors.
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Despite trying to distance itself from the baser condom innovations (colors, textures, tastes, etc.), the HEX is for all appearances just another gimmick.
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This experience can only be achieved by wearing headphones, which the gimmick relies upon to create the illusion of a 360 degree space.
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Efforts like this are done to increase representation of Asian Americans in rock, so that they will stop being viewed as a gimmick.
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I know I'm in the minority when it comes to 219-on-220, but it's no less of a gimmick than the shootout.
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WWE, for its part, basically dared Impact to go ahead with that, as announcer Michael Cole explicitly made reference to the Broken gimmick.
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Beyond being a cool gimmick, the invoice doubles as a public comment opposing the rules, which will be filed to the Federal Register.
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Anthem saw that their biggest stars with the best story were going to walk, so they demanded that they stop using the gimmick.
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If you grew up in the 1980s and 1990s (like me), IMAX films may still feel like a gimmick or a thrill ride.
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There's also an ugly gimmick where the Muslims are seated with a drone directly overhead to, you know, keep an eye on them.
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At first, I thought it might play too much off of the whole "ex-convicts yelling at you while doing prison workouts" gimmick.
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I love a good gimmick and this was a super fun experience — but for my next drink, I'll be seeking out a human.
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The annual marketing gimmick has, since the 1920s, attempted to select a single figure or a group that has influenced the year's events.
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Paying for new spending with a short-term tax gimmick that increased long-term deficits was the exact opposite of sound macroeconomic policy.
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We've also had to draw the line between what is a proper release that people can actually play, and what is a gimmick.
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Meanwhile, one Milwaukee restaurant is testing a delivery service helmed by drag queens as a gimmick to keep customers during the coronavirus pandemic.
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But we do know that high-megapixel sensors aren't a gimmick, and can't really be judged in the way we'd evaluate traditional cameras.
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"This isn't a gimmick, this isn't a throwaway," says Jamie Hindhaugh, chief operating officer at BT Sport, in an interview with The Verge.
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The loyalty to this aspect of the character, even if "being fast" does become a one-note gimmick after 90 minutes, is welcome.
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The original Mothership has not survived, but a reproduction was made when Mr. Clinton reintroduced the gimmick in stage shows in the 1990s.
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On Tuesday, Mr. Merritt called the potential use of lie detectors on convicted terrorists "a cynical, headline-grabbing gimmick to distract our attention."
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Time leaves out the Hong Kong Protesters fighting for their lives and freedoms to push a teen being used as a marketing gimmick.
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It's a nice technological gimmick, one that speaks to our current moment, when the internet makes artists exceedingly aware of what audiences want.
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Such successes have inflated expectations of the transformative power of cable cars, and some experts worry that they are becoming a political gimmick.
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Hardly a gimmick, GoldFusion has a three-pronged impact in that it actively wicks away moisture, combats odor, and dramatically decreases drying time.
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They are formidable creatures, but not invulnerable ones, and there doesn't even appear to be a particular trick or gimmick to killing them.
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This puzzle takes an old idea (backward answers) and solves a problem that these puzzles face: elegantly demarcating which answers follow the gimmick.
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Mashable calls the whole ordeal a marketing gimmick for the network, since the network gets credit when other news outlets use the storm names.
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Worse yet, the 401(k) idea is no more than an accounting gimmick, with an impact on retirement saving that is uncertain at best.
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I was initially skeptical about this novel approach to analgesics, but the emerging scientific discussion convinced me VR's potential is more genuine than gimmick.
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In 2012, on the 1,000th episode of RAW, Vader squashed Heath Slater, who was doing a gimmick of getting beaten up by past legends.
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And while we've written about lots of fancy and interesting takes on turntables in the past, there's no real gimmick to the Runwell Turntable.
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I realize it's relatively a gimmick…but I like to think it maybe stands on its own as a hardcore punk noise rock record.
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More than just a cool gimmick, 3D printing could help save companies money when launching satellites into space by building parts of them there.
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They've always been a gimmick in my experience: not reliable enough for a proper security system, not practical enough to be a baby monitor.
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Yes, it's a silly gimmick, from the name to the video, but you really can buy one if you have the money to spare.
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" He also added that TFit is different because "we do not endorse or recommend any fads or supplements that may be considered a gimmick.
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If the Switch can't muster third-party support, it needs to find a gimmick that makes its uniqueness a boon and not a blemish.
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As an extra gimmick, it also features a laser pointer (which may actually be quite useful when you use it to give a presentation).
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"We didn't want to do something just for fun or [as] a marketing gimmick," said Marcus Shelksohn, StubHub's head of product for mobile apps.
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It's a promotional gimmick for Freeman's new movie, London Has Fallen, in which the Oscar-winner plays the Vice President of the United States.
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Ed Miliband, his successor as leader, printed "Controls on Immigration" on a mug, a move mocked as a bigoted gimmick by the party's left.
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Alberto Barbera, the festival's artistic director, declared that "until just a few months ago [VR] was considered little more than the latest technological gimmick".
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The Trappist-1 Moonphase Watch may be for a specific group of people — think space fanatics — but don't write it off as a gimmick.
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I was again skeptical that this would be anything other than an Apple-chasing spec gimmick, but my skepticism was quelled by the experience.
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"This was only ever intended as a gimmick and a proof of concept – not something that I would actually use at work," he wrote.
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I can't quite make up my mind whether this is a gimmick or a useful feature, but from a technical standpoint, it's incredibly impressive.
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Some of the women like to prepare a memorable one-liner or prepare a gimmick, like dressing up or riding in on a horse.
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He had dismissed Aadhaar, a Congress-initiated project to issue all citizens with a unique, biometrically certifiable identity number, as nothing but a gimmick.
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Burger King, which is owned by Restaurant Brands International, used a similar gimmick last year to encourage customers to download its relaunched mobile app.
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Maybe there is a way to amplify nearby conversations — this is a gimmick I would get excited about — but I can't figure it out.
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It's too early to declare the Touch Bar revolutionary or a gimmick, but they're damn expensive and dongle hell is a very real thing.
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At the Washington-based National Organization for Women, Terry O'Neill dismissed Trump's advocacy effort as a gimmick to enrich her family's sprawling business empire.
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"The COGS loophole for BEAT is a straight-forward gimmick, but I am unsure how or whether the IRS will stop it," he said.
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In short order, Doritos gradually evolved the promotion, titled Crash the Super Bowl, from a user-generated gimmick into a neo-millennial brand activation.
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What was seen as a gimmick at the time appears to be gaining real momentum a year after the Paris Climate Treaty was signed.
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Ronald McDonald has long been the creepy mascot of the mega fast food chain, and, well, it's a gimmick that's not aging very well.
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Women wrestlers were not the first gimmick he tested, and stumbled on them as an option only after a string of others proved underwhelming.
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"I have studied many ingredients over the years as a skin-care formulator, and Paleo seems like a marketing gimmick to me," she says.
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He's got a costume, a gimmick, and a real knack for the street hustle — and more importantly, he seems to enjoy playing the cad.
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As creative as I hoped to be with the opening shot, the episode is also pretty much the same gimmick as 10 Cloverfield Lane.
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The first Mario Maker had 22 tags: automatic, music, puzzle, gimmick, dash, remix, thumbnail, costume, yoshi, theme, speedrun, autoscroll, shoot 'em up, track, traditional.
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"Insect snacks should no longer be seen as a gimmick or something for a dare," said Rachel Eyre, head of future brands at Sainsbury's.
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Often, anonymous DJs (see: Marshmello) feel like a parody of masked underground legends like DJ Stingray, but ItaloJohnson don't quite fit the "gimmick" stereotype.
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With this new turn in her evolution, Cyrus has made it glaringly clear that her days of "busting it open" were all a gimmick.
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To round out the gimmick, the jazz pianist Chick Corea joined in for a freewheeling version of the piece: three pianists at two pianos.
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He said that that Trump is relying "on a budget gimmick" with Overseas Contingency Operations funding to increase funding for the Department of Defense.
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But does that actually matter in day-to-day use, or is it merely a flashy gimmick designed to get press for a day?
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As appealing as a pitter may seem when you're suddenly elbow-deep in bing cherries, for most of us, this tool is a gimmick.
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So, are color-corrected displays a gimmick, or do they help the editors and creatives who hope their laptop screens are displaying colors accurately?
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Collecting the tax from insurers is a gimmick, as insurers will pass the tax on to employers, who will pass it on to workers.
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The country's massive Singles Day promotion in November, which started as an anti-Valentine's Day gimmick, is now the world's largest e-commerce event.
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Frankly, it makes G5's modularity sound much more like a marketing gimmick than a feature that could actually be useful in multiple situations.
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The app may sound like a gimmick to get more people tapping Just Eat's "Order Now" button, but Spence says there's science behind it.
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Rocket Lab's disco ball could also be construed as a marketing gimmick, raising the question about who has the right to advertise in space.
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None of the bands I'm spotlighting this week fall into the "gimmick" category (I think?) but they're all great, so go check 'em out.
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They've got 1.4 million followers, and their gimmick is that they support President Trump, and they are black women, which makes them somewhat unusual.
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It's easy to envision "Permission" reconceived as a gimmick-driven Off Broadway play in which the generally very good leads swap roles every week.
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Or maybe they'd been puzzled by its vagueness, before eventually accepting it as just another viral marketing gimmick in an era flush with them.
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This is a gimmick that late-career Eminem has milked again and again for pop relevance, but it is one of his weakest modes.
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A Trumpian border wall, which began largely as a campaign gimmick, would not fix whatever is going wrong on our country's border with Mexico.
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MJF is famous for being a heel (that's wrestling speak for "bad guy") and part of his gimmick is being a jerk to kids.
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True, Arnold Beckoff fulfills his dream of becoming a father, but in 1982, that seemed like a gimmick: something that could happen only onstage.
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Netflix previewed the announcement with a gimmick in which a version of the show's stair car drove around New York emblazoned with the date.
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They vary in quality from useful to gimmick — but none been around long enough for the market to sort out which ones will stick.
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The end of "Bohemian Rhapsody" — itself a giant gimmick — had 16 minutes of vibrating "beats" as Rami Malek recreated Freddie Mercury's Live Aid performance.
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The cooling system isn't just a gimmick, and it's really nice to have when you know you're going to be gaming for a while.
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Rapper Obie Trice is in real trouble, no gimmick, after cops busted him for felony assault with a gun and violating a restraining order.
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"South Sudan's government usually declares cease-fires as a public relations gimmick or while under extreme external pressure to do so," Mr. Boswell said.
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Brooks Atkinson, the chief theater critic for The New York Times, poked fun at the gimmick, before locating the peculiar appeal of the circus.
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It's not a gimmick, either: AirAsia, based in Malaysia, said it plans to open more than 100 restaurants globally within the next five years.
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They employed a parliamentary gimmick that has been called the "nuclear option," allowing debate to be cut off on nominations by a simple majority.
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"Nights of Ballads and Blues" was an album clearly designed to show Mr. Tyner's gentle side, but he refuses to let the gimmick win.
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But listening to the album as a whole, there are diminishing returns from the certainty that a new gimmick is coming every eight bars.
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At the time, the press denounced MFi as a gimmick—an attempt by Apple to make companies pay for the privilege of making accessories.
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But in both books, language alternately delights and devastates, twisting without turning into a gimmick; instead, the beauty of grammatical function is on display.
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He is not above a gimmick, and to prove it, he has put himself on the ballot as a mayoral candidate in his California hometown.
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In the process, they've given us vivid examples of why folding phones could be more than the latest gadget gimmick or another screen to scratch.
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My impressions at the time: That fast-talking style is fine for a 1940s screwball comedy, but after about five minutes, it's an overused gimmick.
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" The Arizona conservative voted for the Senate tax bill earlier this month after announcing he had succeeded in eliminating an $85 billion expensing "budget gimmick.
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But even with all that, there's one aspect about the Hydrogen Phone that seems like it can't be more than a gimmick: Its holographic display.
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The Wii's motion control gimmick was just enough to get people to buy the console, but proved too shallow for good games to support it.
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The Switch is well made, super easy to get the "gimmick" of, though that's not really the right term, and it does what it promises.
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In other words: It's a gimmick, but it's a somewhat natural and practical one, and if you don't like it you can turn it off.
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My biggest issue with some of the launch titles is that the VR immersion can occasionally feel like it's just serving as a gameplay gimmick.
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It feels like a gimmick right now, but a suite of desktop apps that I'm used to using could make it a lot more appealing.
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They're clearly a gimmick to boost streams of a new song before the official video comes out, but more often than not they seem inadvisable.
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For now, however, it falls squarely within the confines of gimmick — a notion that Matrix co-founder Akram Boukai doesn't seem particularly put off by.
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GamesBecause the Switch has some really incredible tech in the Joy-Con controllers, a number of the launch titles are focused on the new gimmick.
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It was odd and false, perhaps a recognition that the last gasp of the cowboy gimmick in wrestling had no real room left for reinvention.
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It's more than just a gimmick—he inverts the outsize EDM-lite jam into something strange and sultry, with pillowy keyboards and big gated drums.
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These in-store freezers, which also pop up in the brand's stores in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, Boston, and Montreal, are something of a gimmick.
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However, he actively discourages customers interested only in a gimmick, and advertises it with a warning for those with high blood pressure or heart conditions.
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Samsung believes that the folding display is the "foundation of the smartphone of tomorrow," but whether there's more beyond the gimmick certainly wasn't clarified today.
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Ultimately it's a camera gimmick, especially with the bothie naming, but it could prove popular for sports scenarios or even people attending and streaming protests.
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Halting tax cuts for individuals in 5003, derided as a gimmick by Democrats, is designed to pare the bill's long-term costs to the Treasury.
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Were this just a gimmick for demonstrations, there would be no point talking about it but Kanazawa is selling it as a self-defence tonic.
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At least when Miz Cracker did a very similar look she made her hat out of hair (which seems to be Miz Cracker's signature gimmick).
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Small enough to fit into my silverware drawer, and at the cost of two Starbucks runs, the veggetti is way more than just a gimmick.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads BATH, England — Part messiah figure, part marketing gimmick, the rockstar trope would seem to be both exhausted and exhausting.
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The ads say this taco is "wearing nothing but a fried egg" and that's the gimmick—the shell is simply a fried and folded egg.
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Sure, it was usually a total gimmick, but it's hard to resist the urge to bring the page to life — if only for your olfactory.
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If Equity does resemble a recent Wall Street movie, it's David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, with a financial-thriller plot replacing the movie-long limo-ride gimmick.
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I think a big part of the Klok-01's aesthetic appeal stems from the fact that its visual gimmick is also a functional thing.
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The Pizza Underground had a gimmick and a celebrity attached, and the recent passing of Lou Reed—which was purely a coincidence—increased our timeliness.
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But, you know, not that much more than what you're spending now, which means you can't go trying every last anti-aging gimmick willy-nilly.
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The two-time winner of the Beatbox Battle World Championship is trying to counter criticism that the art form is no more than a gimmick.
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Ms. Parker first became known for installation pieces that mixed surprise, familiarity and nostalgia with a surefire gimmick: They seemed to float magically on air.
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And while the 3-pointer was initially dismissed as a gimmick, to be used only in unusual situations, it has increasingly become a crucial weapon.
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At first, this may appear to be a gimmick, these older women playing more than 20 roles, many written for men and for younger actors.
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Eating the kid lunch made me happier, though it's hard to determine whether I got more joy from the gimmick or from the actual food.
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The shirt is too bigPhoto: Ryan F. MandelbaumThis might seem like a simple case of a company pushing some gimmick that I ultimately fell for.
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With examples like this in mind, people regularly write off hick-hop as a lowbrow gimmick that conflates two genres that shouldn't share studio time.
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But in a restaurant-saturated city like London, are there any eateries that don't operate with at least a sort-of gimmick up their sleeve?
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Given the inherent ridiculousness and pageantry that helps to define our beloved genre, though, I think our own definition of "gimmick" needs a few tweaks.
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No word yet on when the revamped Kick-Ass will debut, but for those expecting a rehash of the original with a gimmick, never fear.
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"I didn't want to glorify the VR medium or use it as a gimmick per se, but more so question the medium," says van Leer.
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The practice alarmed local rights groups, who accused the mayor of employing a cheap political gimmick instead of prosecuting the accused through the legal system.
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The reason it sounds like a TV jingle is that it has become one: "Aloha" is a marketing gimmick for the state's primary industry, tourism.
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But his best gimmick came along in the 1960s, when he single-handedly helped popularize the in-flight movie through his company, Inflight Motion Pictures.
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One effortful lift, in which a woman is held aloft by her pelvis while her head and limbs aim downward, soon looks like a gimmick.
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It&aposs a gimmick that the film centres itself on, making for a rather hollow film once you&aposve got past the one-take trickery.
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But critics of the idea view it as a budget gimmick and argue that it would likely reduce the amount that people save for retirement.
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With that in mind, it seems almost impossible to endorse a twee, self-aware marketing gimmick seemingly designed to whip up debate on social media.
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President Donald Trump's reelection campaign is turning it into a gimmick -- mocking Harris and other Democrats as it sells its own Trump-branded plastic straws.
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Vela said he has not committed yet to any candidate this cycle, but criticized what he called the "Sanders gimmick" of offering free public services.
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The motion control gimmick, the ability to play tennis and toss bowling balls from the comfort of a living room, it all had them sold.
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There are chairs at Ikea that are more expensive than that, and the only gimmick they boast is a flat-pack design and free wrenches.
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When Wayne Hsiung first heard about the idea of bringing a VR camera along on a rescue operation, it struck him as a cumbersome gimmick.
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"Trio A With Flags" begins with an arresting gimmick: The dancers are naked but for American flags tied around their necks like calf-length bibs.
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Though ski safaris may sound like a marketing gimmick, these packages are increasingly popular in a number of countries, from France and Switzerland to Canada.
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The idea of forcing food to be other food is a weird gimmick, I'll admit, and sometimes you just shouldn't mess with a good thing.
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Its most recent movie was the brutish, video game–inspired action film Hardcore Henry, which was more about its first-person gimmick than its cast.
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Curved screens and AR cameras are all well and good, but here's a phone feature that extends beyond the flashy and gimmick to the potentially useful.
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