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controller
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controller as in:  hire a new controller

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  • Fred, who was soon to become an air traffic controller, had a new prosthetic leg.†  (source)
  • Daniel took the controller from me before I went up.†  (source)
  • He reached over to pick up his video game controller, my sign to go back downstairs.†  (source)
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  • Somebody jammed a paper clip into the controller!†  (source)
  • Destructive, powerful controllers of heat and fire.†  (source)
  • He's now studying to be an air traffic controller.†  (source)
  • "Sure," I said, pointing to where they could find the extra controllers.†  (source)
  • "Mitch," Teddy said to the flight controller, "what about the launch?"†  (source)
  • There was precedent for what they were doing; during World War II, British intelligence kept an entire network of captured German spies alive and functioning in the minds of their Abwehr controllers, feeding them false and deceptive intelligence in the process.†  (source)
  • Do you know the average age of the mission controller during the Apollo program?†  (source)
  • It isn't with the air-traffic controllers or with the people who built the airplane.†  (source)
  • But Adam was a JTAC [joint terminal attack controller] and he didn't like getting shot at.†  (source)
  • He returned a minute later with a handful of television cables and video-game controllers.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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  • His shoulders rounded over his controller, slamming buttons, his forearms taut, veins visible.  (source)
    controller = proper name - without obvious relation to myth
  • Isaac leaned toward the screen, the controller dancing in his thin-fingered hands.  (source)
  • Isaac dropped his controller in disappointment.  (source)
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  • He stared at the screen, not even glancing at me, and howled, all the while pounding away at his controller.  (source)
    controller = proper name - without obvious relation to myth
  • Isaac fumbled for his controller and then started firing while the bullets rained down on Augustus, who was shot once and then twice but still ran, Augustus shouting, "YOU CAN'T KILL MAX MAYHEM!" and with a final flurry of button combinations, he dove onto the grenade, which detonated beneath him.  (source)
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