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Let’s hope the Continent’s leaders don’t hit the snooze button again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Though the intercom button is intended for use in emergencies, inmates were using it “for pretty much any reason to get the deputies’ attention,” according to court documents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

A few weeks ago, I opened GoPuff, a grocery delivery app, and noticed a button I hadn’t seen before: a black square with a blue-and-white “go” glowing in the center.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

Participants therefore had to recognize that the associations had changed, learn the new ones, and respond with the correct button using the appropriate hand and finger.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

Callaway paused all the screens with the press of one button on his tablet and looked up, eyebrows raised expectantly.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

The car did not have door handles and the electronic buttons meant to open the doors failed to work, according to his lawyers from The Veen Firm.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Once everything is in place, Gardner tests the fire — there are buttons he presses with each thumb to ignite the flame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

He’s found a workaround for other annoyances: Sticking pieces of tape to the display so he can find critical buttons by touching them, instead of looking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

When Gram saw them, they had butterfly wings and hats and tunics made with bits of thread and spare buttons they had managed to pluck from unsuspecting humans who wandered too close to the forest.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

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

He gets a lot of credit for bringing personality to a very buttoned up and scripted media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 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 wore a blue suit buttoned all the way up the front with bright gilt buttons, and trimmed with braid, and he had copper-toed shoes.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

It can get worse over time and make daily activities like buttoning a shirt difficult.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2024

His alleged infractions included not washing his face at a specified time and not buttoning his clothing properly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

We first hear the song as Tony is getting ready to go out, blow-drying his hair, trying on various gold chains and meticulously buttoning his best dress shirt.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2022

He leaped up, flung on his clothes and went out of the door still buttoning his shirt.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck