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
Indeed, like so many other contests this postseason, Game 6 would require Roberts to push buttons and pull levers with his patchwork pitching staff, having nothing but relievers available to cover nine season-defining innings.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024
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
The walls, and even the ceiling, were covered all over with rows and rows and rows of small, black push buttons!
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
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