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Recent Examples of knob
The lid features a convenient knob for lifting.
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Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
Choose hardware that reflects your personal style—antique brass for a traditional look, matte black for modern minimalism, or colorful ceramic knobs for a playful touch.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2025
While certain rooms just need wallpaper and plaster repairs, the home still has knob and tube wiring and old gas light lines that must be brought up to code.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
The battery pack compartment and a programming button are hidden behind a removable front panel, and there’s a thumbturn knob toward the bottom for manually locking and unlocking the door.
—PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025
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Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
Choose hardware that reflects your personal style—antique brass for a traditional look, matte black for modern minimalism, or colorful ceramic knobs for a playful touch.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2025
While certain rooms just need wallpaper and plaster repairs, the home still has knob and tube wiring and old gas light lines that must be brought up to code.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
The battery pack compartment and a programming button are hidden behind a removable front panel, and there’s a thumbturn knob toward the bottom for manually locking and unlocking the door.
—PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knob
Noun
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Work continues to crack down on bots Work continues still to crack down on bots buying up chunks of tickets.—
Arpan Lobo,
Freep.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Maddison and Dejan Kulusevski are both set to miss a significant chunk of the season, while Dominic Solanke’s ankle injury is another cause for concern.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This yuckster attitude was apparently contagious, because Gray herself got in on the act on a day in which she was scheduled to kiss the young hunk Christopher Atkins, who had a recurring role for one season as a camp counselor.—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Sep. 2025
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But inside, slabs of colored glass, hunks of polished resin, and sundry material experiments gleam like mirages in the sunlight that streams in from the ceiling and windows.—
Hannah Martin,
Architectural Digest,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Their small bodies are tricky to differentiate from pond scum or sticky clumps of algae in the dark.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
9 Sep. 2025
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One study uses a new astrophysical computer simulation that models turbulence within the cloud, causing fragmentation into smaller, star-forming clumps.—
Luke Keller,
Space.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The boy had a wad of cash in his hand, which De Jager accepted without counting, still stunned.—
Jordan Greene,
People.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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The New York Times reports that more associates of Mayor Eric Adams are likely to face corruption charges — and that was before an explosive report in The CITY that an Adams campaign advisor tried to give a reporter a wad of cash stuffed inside a bag of potato chips.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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Then Domokos and the chief engineer of the model spotted a glob of stray glue clinging to one of its vertices.—
Elise Cutts,
Wired News,
10 Aug. 2025
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Drink options include the Green Dread – a bright green gin concoction served from a beaker – and the Bloodsucker, a rum and blackberry liqueur drink served with a dollop of dark red jello meant to look like a glob of blood.—
Bailey Schulz,
USA Today,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The cash option is a one-time, lump-sum payment equal to all the cash in the jackpot prize pool.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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Harris decided to add some lump crab to Linden’s lobster sandwich.—
Andy Wang,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Knob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knob. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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