knob
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The shorter man jerked the knob, but the safe didn’t open.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The compact car has a screen and modern safety features, but relies on physical buttons and a rotary control knob for a more old-school experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
With its exquisite controls—a knob to wind the clock, a key to wind the bell and a button to silence the alarm—it was a bewildering cross between jewelry and a grown-up appliance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
You can think of this threshold as settings on a control knob.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
I reach for the knob and pull open the door.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
"So, if the HAQERs are like volume knobs that can be turned, FOXP2 is one of the hands that is turning these volume knobs."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026
For the hardware, the couple will be replacing the existing silver-toned metal with gold, including new faucets, new drawer handles, and new knobs for the cupboards.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026
Remember how loudly I complained about Tesla and others ditching buttons and knobs for all-touchscreen everything?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
This was New Zealand being New Zealand with knobs on.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
She turns the engine on and starts fiddling with some of the knobs.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
You’ll discover the fancifully striped Red St. Lawrence from Maine, the sleek Arkansas Black, the ruby Hidden Rose from Oregon, the pearly Yellow Transparent from Russia and several tortured knobbed russets from Sussex, England.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2021
The knobbed Schwalbes are surprisingly quiet on city roads while offering decent grip on trails — but not as much as you’d get from proper mountain bike tires.
From The Verge ● May 17, 2019
The knobbed ends keep flopping over, needing frequent fixing.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2016
Vanessa Torres isn't intimidated by knobbed rails or stylish headgear.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her legs were bent, with great knobbed joints high above her back, and hairs that stuck out like steel spines, and at each leg’s end there was a claw.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
