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push button

NOUN
button pushed to control electrical circuit
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The reachability enabled by digital command also produced anxiety—if anyone could gain access to a push button, how could society maintain control over the unskilled, incompetent, or evil-doing controller?

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2022

“In ’80, there was no push button, come-rescue-me button.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2017

They strapped her in and showed her how to hit the push button in the toy she would hopefully use for at least three or four years.

From Washington Times • Dec. 19, 2016

When AT&T unveiled the first commercial push button phone in 1963, part of its pitch was simple: calling someone would be faster than it was on rotary phones.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2011

Searching the edge of the casement, he found a push button and touched it with his finger.

From The Black Star A Detective Story by McCulley, Johnston




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