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Recent Examples of knob
There’s no flavoring your instrument outside of its own knobs or pre-amp, nor is there any gain to get overdrive.
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Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
In the wake of the scare, Rocky has taken extra precautions, purchasing childproof safety locks for her stove knobs to help prevent accidental activation in the future.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
Compared to my Telecaster and Stratocaster with their pickups, their wiring, their knobs and switches, the classical guitar has a certain simplicity in the way this wood resonates and thereby creates music.
—Peter Wayne Moe, Longreads, 26 Mar. 2026
The video depicted fingers on a MIDI keyboard, turning knobs, pushing buttons and supposedly composing the song in real time.
—Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
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Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
In the wake of the scare, Rocky has taken extra precautions, purchasing childproof safety locks for her stove knobs to help prevent accidental activation in the future.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
Compared to my Telecaster and Stratocaster with their pickups, their wiring, their knobs and switches, the classical guitar has a certain simplicity in the way this wood resonates and thereby creates music.
—Peter Wayne Moe, Longreads, 26 Mar. 2026
The video depicted fingers on a MIDI keyboard, turning knobs, pushing buttons and supposedly composing the song in real time.
—Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knob
Noun
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Americans saw large chunks of their wallets get eaten up by soaring gas prices in March; however, consumers still had money left in the tank to spend elsewhere.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2026
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Offensive tackle Left tackle Ickey Ekwonu is on the final year of his contract and will miss at least a chunk of 2026 after sustaining a significant knee injury at the end of last year.—
Alex Zietlow
April 21,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Apr. 2026
Noun
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This recipe relies on a cheesy boost of flavor with a generous amount of grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese folded into the meatballs and a hunk of the cheese rind added to the broth for more umami depth.—
Lynda Balslev,
Mercury News,
7 Apr. 2026
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And perhaps this whole saga illuminates another reason why voters prefer to make young hunks wait until their late 30s, as Jordan did, to get their Oscar — to teach them humility.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2026
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Then, tumble dry on low heat with clean tennis balls or dryer balls to break up clumps and restore fluffiness.—
Katie Cloyd,
Martha Stewart,
22 Apr. 2026
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This ingredient outmasses the full sum total of all normal matter by about a 5-to-1 ratio, clumps and clusters like (slow-moving) matter does, but doesn’t interact with normal matter or light in any measurable way.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
21 Apr. 2026
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This was long before Mayor Giuliani got his shorts in a wad about Ofili’s The Holy Virgin Mary, part of a 1999 group show at the Brooklyn Museum displaying art owned by the advertising mogul Charles Saatchi.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
20 Apr. 2026
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Cubans have long been accustomed to shopping with wads of cash stuffed into bags after compounding bouts of soaring inflation.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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Inspired by both pre-Columbian cultures and modern scientific theories, Jensen made energetic diagrams of shapes, symbols, and numbers in loud complementary colors, using thick globs of paint; the results generate a fascinating friction.—
Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
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With just a pea-size glob of scat, biologists can genetically decode which individual whale produced the sample.—
Kelso Harper,
Scientific American,
16 Dec. 2025
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Over Christmas, while trying to pinpoint where the discomfort was really coming from, Warner discovered a lump.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
20 Apr. 2026
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Castaways Raw Bar & Grill is another local favorite, which regularly draws crowds with its seafood mac-n-cheese and jumbo lump crab cakes.—
Kristy Tolley,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Knob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knob. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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