control room
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of control room
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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Under the VAR system, officials sitting before a bank of monitors in a centralized control room review match footage in real time and advise the on-field referee of potential errors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
The idea is to set up a shipping container control room in a safe area, where a human can remotely control the vehicle on the last, most treacherous leg of its journey.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
A human engineer sitting in a remote control room may be on hand to take control of the robot if needed.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
In the most terrifying moment of his career, he picked up the nearest phone, dialed the control room with the main server and shouted: Unplug the machine!
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
Late in the afternoon, his control room supervisor alerts him that the water truck they’ve been waiting for all day is at the gate.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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