knob
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The shorter man jerked the knob, but the safe didn’t open.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
When his pricey stand mixer lost its control knob, Adcock went searching for a printable fix—and a model to work from.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
"Our framework is essentially like a control knob," says co author Michael Martini, who worked on the project as an Emory postdoctoral fellow and research scientist in Nemenman's group.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2026
By holding the bat this way, the full weight of the knob drives into the hamate with every swing, slowly destabilizing it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
She may have noticed one of them unlocking the knob from the inside.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
The analysis revealed that these genetic "volume knobs" were already present in Neanderthals and may have been even slightly more pronounced than they are in modern humans.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026
There is a traditional steering wheel, knobs and levers, while the screens consist of so-called organic light-emitting diodes, which don’t require backlighting, to create a more analog feel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 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
The centerpiece room of the ship will house a giant interactive screen, in which guests can twist knobs and panels to skip across different intergalactic worlds — or perhaps they’re just dreams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026
“But most of us, I am sure, ‘fiddled with the knobs.’
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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
"My heart knobbed up and started a wild swing," Brad reminisces.
From Time Magazine Archive
Following closely behind them perhaps there would have strode a professional pilgrim, supporting himself on a stout knobbed staff shod like an alpenstock and weighed down with blessed medals, relics, shells, vernicles and so forth.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
