push buttons
Example Sentences
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“You know how to push buttons really fast but don’t have the attention level to focus on your teacher,” said Horowitz-Kraus, head of the educational neuroimaging group at Technion, an Israeli university.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Pret's reporting system revealed there had been several call-outs relating to defective or frozen push buttons in the previous 19 months.
From BBC • Aug. 30, 2023
But “Unicorn Wars” is forcefully provocative, trying too hard to push buttons at the cost of more nuanced explorations of masculinity and power.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023
“What shocked me was the silence from the administrators at TCU. Usually those are the people who are like, ‘you better not push buttons here.’
From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2022
I could use it to run, push buttons of one sort or another, make things happen.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
