knob
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"The strain-dependent nature suggests that we may be able to use lattice strain as a tuning knob to induce or control altermagnetism," Zhang said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
You can think of this threshold as settings on a control knob.
From Salon ● May 12, 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
Nonetheless, don’t expect any team to start instructing its hitters to move their hands up off the knob.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
I took her to the front door and showed her how the lock worked, then showed her how a chair could be propped beneath the knob so it wouldn’t turn.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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
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
This was New Zealand being New Zealand with knobs on.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
It is the size of a truck engine, nosed in knobs, shiny with chrome, gleaming with modern-day hope.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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
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
