buttonhole
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"Since I was born I have never experienced stable power supply. We call ourselves the giant of Africa but we can't fix electricity," complains Mr Adah as he works on a buttonhole.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2023
They have lunches, meet at conferences, buttonhole departmental women visitors, set up private Facebook pages and Slack channels, and are all over Twitter.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 25, 2022
This opens the floor to everyone who has ideas — not just those with the loudest voices or the chutzpah to buttonhole leaders in passing to pitch their ideas.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2022
And he added a personal touch to the museum: Among its collection was a coat with a buttonhole camera that he had worn while working under cover in Greece and Cyprus.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2022
The man took off his ring and pocket watch, freeing the gold chain from his buttonhole.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
His red coat with black trim, red waistcoat with hand-stitched buttonholes and gold regimental buttons, and white breeches “represent the only complete uniform of the Revolutionary war.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
The golf stories are narrated by the “oldest member” of an upper-class golf club who buttonholes unwary younger members to regale them with his memories of golfers he has known.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
David Whelan said his brother must work at least eight hours a day, six days a week, on menial tasks like making buttonholes, which has caused him repetitive strain injury.
From Reuters ● Nov. 3, 2022
He buttonholes Bennedith and tells her a story about the time he was wronged by an evil nun with a maimed hand.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
We made sweat lodges out of broken branches dug back into the earth, covered over with our shirts tied together at the buttonholes.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
Tegmark buttonholed Elon Musk at a 2014 MIT conference on space, after one of his students asked a question that prompted the billionaire’s now-famous quip that, with AI, “we are summoning the demon.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026
At the lighting ceremony, a non-Jewish man buttonholed the rabbi to thank him for procuring badly needed heart medicine for him during a spate of intense bombardment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2023
So she buttonholed Rubinstien while he was out walking his dog, a pit bull mix named Chubbs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
There, he was buttonholed by people wanting to talk about their portfolios and the soaring NFT market.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2021
He buttonholed a priest who was coming back with one of the returning streams of pilgrims.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
But Mrs Kelsey's medical records, which BBC News has seen, show she suffered a great deal after she started buttonholing.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2024
A young William Boeing showed up day after day, buttonholing every pilot he could for a skyride.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2023
Netanyahu continued the efforts until the last moment, according to reports from the chamber, buttonholing individual members overnight as the voting continued on more than 700 individual provisions.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2021
It’s hard to immerse yourself in a fictional, historical world that won’t stop buttonholing you to point out its similarities to the real, contemporary one.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2020
The warp strings can be passed through the rings without buttonholing.
From Hand-Loom Weaving A Manual for School and Home by Mattie Phipps Todd
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