knob
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You can think of this threshold as settings on a control knob.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
"This means that phosphate scarcity is the primary control knob for methane production and emissions in the open ocean," Weber says.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 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
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 knob jiggles, the door opens, a moth flies inside, and a lady with gray hair sticks her head out.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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
Giggles echoed in a nearby play area where children twisted knobs and spun a wheel in a car-like play structure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
Remember how loudly I complained about Tesla and others ditching buttons and knobs for all-touchscreen everything?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 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
Down the hall, at the guards’ station, a warder twists the knobs of the wireless back and forth but finds only hiss and crackle.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
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
