control panel

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Some have buttons resembling the control panel of a spaceship; others have little faces that could be alien.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2025

Instead of a conventional treadmill’s control panel, there’s a grapefruit-size glowing blue button at snout height that the animals can press to run the machine for a few seconds.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2023

As part of the third phase of its Graded Response Action Plan to combat effects of increased pollution, a central pollution control panel ordered an immediate ban on non-essential construction work in the city.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2023

One leans over and presses a button on the ship’s control panel, apparently to comply with the Russian’s order by cutting the ship’s engines.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2023

It is the finest radio he has ever laid hands on: an inclined control panel, magnetic tuning, big as an icebox.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr