Example Sentences

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Encord’s Hansen said that there are warehouses planned in Eastern Europe where large teams of operators will sit with joysticks, guiding robots across the world.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2025

The two joysticks accommodate righties or lefties, but you only use one to fly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

But while they will be familiar with the typical way of playing - moving and aiming with joysticks and shooting with the "A" button - there’s a significant new feature too.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2025

The app also allows players to customize the lighting of the backlit joysticks with either a single color, multiple colors, prism colors or action, where the color changes based on the button input.

From Washington Times • Nov. 25, 2023

Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we’ve all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joysticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides