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Recent Examples of knob
The handle has a gentle curve and an extra knob towards the brush head to give you better leverage when cleaning.
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Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 July 2025
Most have knobs for the height and one or more angles.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2025
Perhaps a new knob here, a new guard there, but nothing revolutionary.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 17 July 2025
Charging ports are at the bottom of the center stack, and the system still includes some physical buttons and a volume knob, which were much appreciated.
—Josh Max, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
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Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 July 2025
Most have knobs for the height and one or more angles.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2025
Perhaps a new knob here, a new guard there, but nothing revolutionary.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 17 July 2025
Charging ports are at the bottom of the center stack, and the system still includes some physical buttons and a volume knob, which were much appreciated.
—Josh Max, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knob
Noun
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No unwieldy chocolate chunks, overwhelming ripples, or unpleasantly gritty, grainy bits of chocolate.—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
23 July 2025
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Until that changes, a large chunk will continue to seek their soccer elsewhere.—
Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
Noun
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Just as theatrical—and perhaps even more thrilling—is the restaurant’s turmeric-marinated catfish, the fish cut into hunks and twice-cooked: first, with a crisping swim in the kitchen’s deep fryer, offstage in the kitchen, then at the table, in a sizzling skillet set over a portable burner.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
20 July 2025
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The chicken was outrageously juicy, shredded into succulent hunks that sopped up a brick-red-colored mole made from roasted tomatoes, chiles and onions with ground sesame and pumpkin seeds.—
Rachel Bernhard,
jsonline.com,
15 July 2025
Noun
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When prepared per the suggestion of its packaging, the combo of about 30 grams of cookies ’n’ cream powder mixed with 6 ounces of water yields a thick beige liquid that’s punctuated by little black clumps of cookie dust.—
Pete Cottell,
Wired News,
17 July 2025
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Therefore, a system could identify clumps of debris big enough to contain remains.—
Robin R. Murphy,
The Conversation,
16 July 2025
Noun
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The most recent example of this inconceivably opaque situation involves the wad being spent on TV ads promoting candidates for mayor of Detroit.—
M.L. Elrick,
Freep.com,
21 July 2025
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So the wad of gauze was slapped on his ear for dramatic effect, as suspected.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 July 2025
Noun
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Each glob of goo will connect to any glob it is placed next to, which allows for all kinds of creations – especially as variables are introduced that toy with the game’s physics.—
Joshua Rivera,
Vulture,
6 May 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,
Quanta Magazine,
25 June 2025
Noun
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The 43-year-old initially felt an olive-sized lump in her breast while pregnant, forcing an early labor and a mastectomy just six days after giving birth to Lily, now 11.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 July 2025
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Between the freshness of the lump crab and its vegetal crunch, the orzo had all the makings of a great summer pasta salad, if on the mild-mannered side.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
26 July 2025
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“Knob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knob. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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