panic button
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
Another guest on the programme, Theo Clarke, Conservative MP for Stafford, said she walked around her constituency with a panic button "at all times", adding the device was linked directly to police.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2024
My fingers brushed again something hard and smooth in my pocket, and I didn’t need to pull it out to know that it was the panic button.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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