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controller

[kuhn-troh-ler] / kənˈtroʊ lər /


NOUN
bursar
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NOUN
manipulator
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As drivers ratchet up to Sport and Race modes on the manettino controller, the active exhaust valves allow more volume and breathy resonance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

“Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! I have lost thrust in my engine,” the pilot of the single-seat Mk.58 Hawker Hunter fighter jet communicated to an air traffic controller, according to an audio broadcast from @liveatc.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

She, much like the person behind the proverbial controller, is dropped into a world quickly becoming overrun by a viral plague with no idea what to do.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

This controller acts as the robot's "brain," determining where the robot is and deciding how it should move.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

She hands me a third controller, and we start a new game—the three of us against a computer-controlled team.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas

Instead, their experience will remain available to astronauts, engineers, flight controllers, and others working on the next stages of NASA's human spaceflight program.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

To recoup the $2.2 billion owed, Pfizer is going after money used to pay air-traffic controllers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Marvell refers to its custom chips as XPUs, and to the components that support them in data centers — such as networking and storage controllers — as XPU attach.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

He used a largely unknown cast and shot with an almost documentary immediacy, cutting between the plane and air-traffic controllers trying to make sense of what was happening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

How could the air traffic controllers keep track of the blips on the radar screen amid heavy fighting?

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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