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Recent Examples of knob
There are lever handles on every door, partly because a wrist with arthritis can’t twist a round knob, and partly because lever handles tend to look better anyway.
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Amy Kunst, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2026
Pages spiked the knob of his bat into the dirt before rounding the bases.
—Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
The ancient Greeks posited this knob of tissue might be the seat of the soul.
—Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 3 May 2026
This structural shift provides a new tuning knob to refine the efficiency of technologies ranging from solar fuel production and chemical catalysis to high-performance electronics.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 Apr. 2026
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Amy Kunst, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2026
Pages spiked the knob of his bat into the dirt before rounding the bases.
—Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
The ancient Greeks posited this knob of tissue might be the seat of the soul.
—Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 3 May 2026
This structural shift provides a new tuning knob to refine the efficiency of technologies ranging from solar fuel production and chemical catalysis to high-performance electronics.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knob
Noun
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If, for David Lynch, ideas are like fish in a river, then for Danish provocateur Nicolas Winding Refn, those ideas are like chunks of excrement in an exploded sewage pipe.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
19 May 2026
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Ramsbottom was at his desk when the drone smashed through the workspace's tin ceiling, spraying shrapnel in all directions, and lodging a chunk of glass in the back of his head.—
Michael Kaplan,
CBS News,
19 May 2026
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Navel-gazing cinema about the creative process isn’t usually my bag, but Almodóvar doesn’t take his own misery that seriously, even inserting a manic pixie dream hunk, a male stripper-slash-firefighter played by Patrick Criado, for a little bump and grind.—
Joshua Rothkopf,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2026
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Toss it all together taking care not to smush the avocado hunks, and eat up.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
21 May 2026
Noun
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Fragments of bodies, including clumps of flesh and part of a jaw, were placed in a plastic bag.—
Rania Abouzeid,
New Yorker,
21 May 2026
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But in the dark, Yara was just trying their best not to trip over young clumps of prickly pear.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 May 2026
Noun
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Tucker’s rapid-fire delivery is punctuated with sound effects, music cues, and the use of a variety of props dangling from his person at all times (including handcuffs, a wad of cash, and two guns).—
Malina Saval,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2026
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Not as punishment, but to better know our playing grounds and appreciate the big and small things—like freeing wads of vegetation from an undercarriage—that turn a field into a stage.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
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Bieber’s face artfully dotted with globs of lotion.—
Lucy Feldman,
Time,
6 May 2026
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The chemicals made their way into Lake Apopka, turning the crystal clear waters into a pea-green soup filled with globs of gooey algae.—
Stephen Hudak,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 May 2026
Noun
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Adding the grits to the pot slowly while stirring is key to the dish's creaminess and no lumps.—
Emma Ashe,
Southern Living,
15 May 2026
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But if the gland expands or droops, which is common with age, a portion of it can escape those confines, bulging out below the jawbone and appearing as a lump in the neck.—
Jolene Edgar,
Allure,
14 May 2026
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“Knob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knob. Accessed 26 May. 2026.
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