controller
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The captain decided to return to the Spanish island about 30 minutes after departure "due to the danger" the fight "posed to the safety of the flight", the air traffic controller said.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
In the first, on June 13, a controller lost primary radar but failed to switch to backup radar, the FAA said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
In the new study, Zhou and colleagues used super-resolution imaging on neurons grown in the laboratory and found that the MPS behaves more like a cellular traffic controller, regulating all major forms of endocytosis.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
The move aimed to increase controller ranks and ease New York region travel delays, which can ripple across the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
“Hold up,” Manny says, stopping the game and tossing his controller out of Jus’s reach.
From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone
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They provide so much support for our planet, as decomposers, pest controllers, food for other animals and generally for keeping our systems clean and tidy.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
He added that "good pest controllers always, always kill them in a humane manner".
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The Newark-area controllers also oversee traffic for Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, which has been the subject of an FAA safety review.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Fewer controllers working this summer could prompt the FAA to further slow the number of flights that can take off or land at one of the region’s busiest travel hubs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
I’d suffered the aftereffects, of course—power outages across the camp, White Noise when the camp controllers thought one of them had done it on purpose.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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