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Recent Examples of knob
Both Apple and Samsung watches have touch screens, but the Apple Watch also has a digital crown knob-button.
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PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
By turning this knob, the business can strike a balance in the tradeoff between a model’s primary bottom-line/monetary value and the number of false positives and false negatives, as well as other KPIs.
—Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The cocotte has two handles and a lid fitted with a pumpkin stem knob.
—Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
Twist the powertrain mode knob to Track, watch the digital dash retract itself to give you a cleaner view, then activate Launch mode via a console button, and prepare to have your sense of speed lightly warped.
—Sean Evans, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025
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PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
By turning this knob, the business can strike a balance in the tradeoff between a model’s primary bottom-line/monetary value and the number of false positives and false negatives, as well as other KPIs.
—Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The cocotte has two handles and a lid fitted with a pumpkin stem knob.
—Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
Twist the powertrain mode knob to Track, watch the digital dash retract itself to give you a cleaner view, then activate Launch mode via a console button, and prepare to have your sense of speed lightly warped.
—Sean Evans, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knob
Noun
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For the second time in the last three season, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow will miss a large chunk of the season.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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In the worst-case scenario, a collision could smash a satellite into many more pieces of space debris, which each then go on to collide with more satellites, which produces more chunks of space junk, and so on and so forth.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Smoothing round poppy seeds and sea salt—which do the gentle buffing—come suspended in a hunk of detoxifying French blue clay, nourishing olive fruit oil, and zingy peppermint essential oil, the latter of which wakes you up better than any iPhone alarm.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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When this world was catastrophically interrupted by a hunk of space trash some 30 million years later, in the cinematic end-Cretaceous mass extinction, the mammals would inherit not only the Earth but the climate of the dinosaurs as well.—
Peter Brannen,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Add butter and pulse until the mix clumps together to form pea-size balls.—
Gretchen McKay,
Twin Cities,
12 Sep. 2025
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If the plaque weakens and breaks apart, large clumps are released into the blood stream, and a large clump can block an artery, completely shutting off blood flow and causing a heart attack.—
Bryant Stamford,
Louisville Courier Journal,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The boy had a wad of cash in his hand, which De Jager accepted without counting, still stunned.—
Jordan Greene,
People.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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The New York Times reports that more associates of Mayor Eric Adams are likely to face corruption charges — and that was before an explosive report in The CITY that an Adams campaign advisor tried to give a reporter a wad of cash stuffed inside a bag of potato chips.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Then Domokos and the chief engineer of the model spotted a glob of stray glue clinging to one of its vertices.—
Elise Cutts,
Wired News,
10 Aug. 2025
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Drink options include the Green Dread – a bright green gin concoction served from a beaker – and the Bloodsucker, a rum and blackberry liqueur drink served with a dollop of dark red jello meant to look like a glob of blood.—
Bailey Schulz,
USA Today,
5 Aug. 2025
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Shearer and Teplin had just announced that Witherspoon’s company Hello Sunshine bought their business when Shearer discovered a lump in her right breast.—
Eileen Finan,
PEOPLE,
17 Sep. 2025
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The cash option is a one-time, lump-sum payment that is equal to all the cash in the Mega Millions jackpot prize pool.—
Detroit Free Press,
Freep.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Knob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knob. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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