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button

[buht-n] / ˈbʌt n /
NOUN
fastener
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They already post man-on-the-street-style interviews on social media, in which they ask people to weigh in on hot button questions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

By popular demand, the capacitive switches on the Roma’s steering wheel have been replaced with tactile buttons and controllers—including, Ferrari says, the return of the iconic Start button.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Last month Masters told BBC Sport that Infantino had "pressed the self-destruct button" by delivering "a self-inflicted wound" over FFE.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

"We set out to identify cells that push the self-destruct button but survive anyway," Braun explains.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

They put Tūtū on a stretcher with wheels that drop down at the press of a button and steer her to the ambulance.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Ermanno Scervino, for his part, unveiled a "corsair" woman, in a wide red and beige jacket with gold buttons, worn over a mini-short.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

She found Georgia-based print shops to make pink “Senator My Boo” buttons and has been working with local Democratic activists and volunteers to distribute them at Ossoff’s rallies, including one he held Sunday in Athens.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

Her hands shook as she punched the buttons into the safe’s keypad, entering the wrong combination.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The faces of lions are delicately piped in three dimensions on the buttons of a piece based on a suit worn by Elizabeth Taylor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Thorn nodded back and murmured, “Descoser,” ever so quietly as she pointed one old-lady finger at the buttons on Mr. Dimblewit’s jacket.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

It’s good the NFL isn’t as buttoned up as it used to be regarding its public image, although it’s probably wishing this story would go away.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

Appearing remotely via video-link wearing a partially buttoned pale blue shirt, Brand, the ex-husband of popstar Katy Perry, only spoke to confirm his name and his date of birth.

From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026

A year after graduating, he began designing menswear at Stirling Copper and was responsible for the body-hugging, buttoned trousers Sir Mick Jagger wore during The Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter tour in 1969.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025

As he buttoned up a professional baseball uniform for the first time in his life, he understood that he was becoming the guinea pig in an experiment that has the whole industry watching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

He put his coat on and buttoned it up jauntily.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Instead of clocking into a cubicle for a traditional 9-to-5 and buttoning corporate uniforms each morning, some new grads are spinning records from 5 p.m. to 9 a.m. or writing Substack newsletters from cafes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

“I’m very happy,” he said, “with the way audiences have embraced the show, and with the journey that Taylor has created in the present time and in buttoning it up the way he always would.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024

Ms Thompson said that despite 2024 looking like it will be a challenging year, households are very good at adapting to a new lending landscape and "buttoning down the hatches."

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2023

A smart person would respond to Carroll's new court filing by buttoning up.

From Salon ● May 24, 2023

But he went to his room and came out buttoning a clean one.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns




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