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“It was like the moment I pushed that button to submit for prior authorization, they didn’t even wait for my physician’s paperwork,” Noonan said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
In the lion-shaped appearance of the nebula, this stellar remnant resembles a small button nose.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Throughout the show, his chosen family is on stage with him, punctuating his stories with songs that give each anecdote an emotional button.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
"You pressed a magic button inside of me and I fell into a galaxy of unrealised dreams," the pop superstar wrote on Instagram on Saturday.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
I feel like things are moving super fast—like somebody hit the 2x button on my life remote.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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Secular Israelis were prepared with a counter-protest, blowing whistles to drown out the chants and with some wearing pink lapel buttons showing a middle finger.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
They figure out how to disable alarms and alerts, or stick tape on digital dashboards to mimic old-school buttons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
When this was realised, the automated blue-flag system was disconnected and the FIA relied on marshals showing blue flags or pressing the buttons that operate the blue-light panels trackside.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
But to see him moving the levers and pushing buttons was fascinating.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
Unsurprisingly, they were so disgusted by their own appearance that they had draped themselves in a kind of fur-substitute, held together with primitive buttons and zippers.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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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 buttoned it up over his hoodie, grabbed his backpack, and then slipped out the back door and jumped the fence.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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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
A smart person would respond to Carroll's new court filing by buttoning up.
From Salon ● May 24, 2023
She girds herself for the interrogation; taking a few deep breaths — decisive, metallic — and buttoning her jacket as if it might shield her from danger.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
He had hurried out and called Sounder and looked under the house before he had finished buttoning his shirt, but his mother had made him come in.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
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