panic button

NOUN

alarm button

Synonyms

WEAK

911 buzzer emergency signal nurse's signal

Example Sentences

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This week’s software-stock selloff feels like the latest reason to reach for the career panic button, unless you happen to be an artificial-intelligence developer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

No one is pushing a panic button just yet, though.

From Barron's • Jan. 8, 2026

Now Anthropic has provided one bot with a panic button just in case.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2025

Mr Hagigi said he pressed a panic button and then the fire alarm, which turned on lights around the site.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2025

The moment I pushed the panic button in the rover, there was an ear-popping whoosh as the pop-tent fired out, attached to the rover airlock.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir