buttonhole
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"I would say that the buttonhole needling technique destroyed her life, certainly destroyed her health," says Dr Macanovic.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2024
She bounced around from L.A. factory to L.A. factory, avoiding wage theft and dodging sweatshops, before finally finding a job as a buttonhole operator on a production line, earning a decent wage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
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
There was a rose in his buttonhole, and the tip of his handkerchief, folded into a triangle, peeped out of his breast pocket.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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
This he tailored into surprisingly well-fitting shirts and pants, complete with pockets, belt loops, and properly sewn buttonholes.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2022
They were suddenly having difficulty getting the buttons of his shirt through the buttonholes.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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 a moment of vulnerability, Harper is buttonholed by an old classmate named Sue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025
Resident Caroline Aguirre, a retired parole agent, said she buttonholed one courier trying to deliver a bag marked with the name James on it and explained the order wasn’t for her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
Only one character in “Sign” identifies as Black, which surprised white critics who had buttonholed Hansberry as a writer devoted to Black characters.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
The judge agreed, and for a moment Hale personally buttonholed Burkhart in the courtroom, the plot unfolding this time right in front of White.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Jasna Macanovic, who worked at the QA for 17 years, had raised concerns about the way the trust was allowing some staff to deliver the dialysis technique - known as buttonholing.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2024
Then Mr. Traum tried buttonholing people on the street.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
They’ve had mixed success buttonholing people on the street to pose.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2023
A young William Boeing showed up day after day, buttonholing every pilot he could for a skyride.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2023
The warp strings can be passed through the rings without buttonholing.
From Hand-Loom Weaving A Manual for School and Home by Todd, Mattie Phipps
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