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With its exquisite controls—a knob to wind the clock, a key to wind the bell and a button to silence the alarm—it was a bewildering cross between jewelry and a grown-up appliance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

You can think of this threshold as settings on a control knob.

From Salon ● May 12, 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

The doorway to the stairs was on the second floor at the end of a long hallway in the vacant western wing, the door itself narrower than the rest and the knob rusted from disuse.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

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

Door handles, faucet knobs, and flush levers tend to be more contaminated because they are frequently touched, often with unwashed hands.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 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

There are no knobs to be found; doors open with hidden latches and levers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025

The first place was a farm where there was a gate with big white posts and round knobs on top of them.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

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

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