Thesaurus results for HARDWARE

hardware

noun

as in equipment

items needed for the performance of a task or activity gathered together the hardware needed to set up a first aid station at the finish line for the marathon

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Recent Examples of hardware Once Orion is deemed safe to approach, Navy divers can bring their boats up against the bobbing capsule and members of the 16- to 20-person team jump into the water and begin attaching hardware to steady the capsule and prepare it for crew extraction and recovery. —

Miles Doran, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026 Software updates come in less than a week, and hardware changes come every few weeks. —

Jason Ma, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026 Replace any hardware that is severely rusted, broken, or bent. —

Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2026 The lack of imaging hardware makes the G2 one of the lightest and slimmest waveguide smart glasses currently available. —

Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 9 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hardware

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Bose pros Bose products are known for their rich sound, and although Bose is a top audio equipment brand, many of them are more affordable than Sonos equivalents.

— BestReviews, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026
The equipment did not provide a warning the night of the collision since the fire trucks did not have transponders and were only partially picked up by ground radar.

— Aaron Cooper, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026