How to Use killer app in a Sentence

killer app

noun

• The whole world is still looking for the ‘killer app’ for mobile 5G.
  — PCMAG, 20 Sep. 2022
• There is no clear killer app in sight for 5G mobile networks.
  — John McCormick, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2020
• But Facebook and its VR rivals still lack a killer app that can help sell the concept.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
• However, the Celtics’ killer app is having the league’s best tandem in Tatum and Jaylen Brown.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2023
• Obviously, the killer app to hook in there is Gmail, and that hasn't happened.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
• The Note10+ also has a fourth depth camera, which can be used for 3D-scanning (but still needs to find its killer app).
  — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
• Others emphasized that the tech wasn’t the issue at hand so much as the lack of a killer app or comfort.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 14 Feb. 2024
• Roboticists have learned that nurturance is the killer app.
  — David Freeman, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2017
• The News Feed’s killer app has always been easy, viral outrage.
  — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
• The Note 10+ also has a fourth depth camera, which can be used for 3-D-scanning (but still needs to find its killer app).
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2019
• Speaking of consumers, what will be the killer app that gets us all wanting to put these types of devices on our faces?
  — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• The search for a killer app Finding an impartial opinion on blockchain projects isn't easy.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2020
• Advertisement For her, the new killer app is a very old one — playing great live shows.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• One day, somebody will find a use for it — a killer app that will make 5G phones indispensable.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2019
• Like Facebook’s rise after the dot-com bubble burst, the killer app for Web3 may not have even been invented yet.
  — Adam Kovacevich, Fortune, 1 May 2023
• In search of the 'killer app' That magic trifecta isn't guaranteed.
  — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2017
• The option to take a game on the go, or play when the TV is occupied, is a killer app feature that can convince players to buy a Switch version of a game.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2019
• Perhaps the next killer app will be a GPS for monetary policy.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• Live entertainment, and sports in particular, is the killer app of the media world these days.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2018
• Yet to many true believers, skirting those rules is DeFi’s killer app.
  — Michael P. Regan, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• Google Plex could have been a digital checking account killer app.
  — Ron Shevlin, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• Word processing, however, doesn't have a killer app yet.
  — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2015
• Why this matters: With few killer apps and even fewer flagship watches, Wear OS is in desperate need of a leader.
  — Michael Simon, PCWorld, 1 May 2019
• Close to 90% of that amount came from China, and was almost entirely driven by Douyin, the Chinese version of the company's killer app.
  — Sherisse Pham, CNN, 5 May 2020
• However, the killer app has still alluded us, until now.
  — Michael Gale, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• The default instant messaging system on iPhone is a killer app with no rival on Android.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 10 Aug. 2022
• Their killer app is usually said to be factoring large numbers, which are the key to modern encryption.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Jan. 2018
• As these networks spread, e-mail emerged as the killer app for bringing asynchronous communication to the office.
  — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2019
• Three years later, that killer app has turned into killer apps–cloud, edge, and high-performance computing workloads.
  — Matt Kimball, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• More broadly, are these new personal assistants AI’s killer app?
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 May 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024