knob
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“If I get hot in my car and want some air conditioning, I just want to turn a knob and have cold air come out,” Doyle said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
In a separate pan, warm olive oil with a small knob of butter, then bloom Old Bay and Tony Chachere’s.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026
"There is a splice site in Homer1 that can be pharmacologically targeted, which may be an ideal way to help dial the knob on brain signal-to-noise levels," Rajasethupathy says.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 2, 2026
He learned to beatmatch by plugging a player into each side of his amplifier and using the balance knob to fade between them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
He kept his hand on the knob, his gaze suddenly down at his shoes.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Inside, the music continues: Grampy strips the knobs from his gas stove and connects the resulting length of pipe to a teapot’s spout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 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
By adjusting these quantum knobs, or energy scales, researchers can push electrons from solid to liquid phases within these materials.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2025
She peered into the eyepiece, positioned the telescope to look through a windowpane, and began twisting the focus knobs.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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
