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controller

[kuhn-troh-ler] / kənˈtroʊ lər /


NOUN
bursar
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NOUN
manipulator
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The controller asked LA28 to make the additional disclosures by Monday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Radio 2 controller Helen Thomas described Scanlon as "incredibly warm and quick witted and proved to be extremely popular with the Radio 2 audience this summer".

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

As drivers ratchet up to Sport and Race modes on the manettino controller, the active exhaust valves allow more volume and breathy resonance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

She, much like the person behind the proverbial controller, is dropped into a world quickly becoming overrun by a viral plague with no idea what to do.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

His shoulders rounded over his controller, slamming buttons, his forearms taut, veins visible.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

Instead, their experience will remain available to astronauts, engineers, flight controllers, and others working on the next stages of NASA's human spaceflight program.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Newbies will have to parse the gear thingy in the console, three controllers meant to evoke the gated shifters of yore.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Marvell refers to its custom chips as XPUs, and to the components that support them in data centers — such as networking and storage controllers — as XPU attach.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

He used a largely unknown cast and shot with an almost documentary immediacy, cutting between the plane and air-traffic controllers trying to make sense of what was happening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

That’s what Ratwatte meant when he said that no American would have been so fatally intimidated by the controllers at Kennedy Airport.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell




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