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button

[buht-n] / ˈbʌt n /
NOUN
fastener
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After a decade or so of failing to qualify for major tournaments - since Euro 2000 - the authorities hit the reset button.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

I find myself not watching the road while I search for the correct button or icon to turn on the air conditioner or change entertainment.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

And who should arrive to put a button on the story but Superman, welcoming his cousin back to Metropolis with open arms and a flowing cape.

From Salon Jun. 27, 2026

Iran “retains both the capability and the willingness to hit the reset button if its demands are not met,” analysts at Deutsche Bank said in a note Friday.

From MarketWatch Jun. 26, 2026

Doc took the shirt and located a small button on an inside seam.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

But to see him moving the levers and pushing buttons was fascinating.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2026

Vehicles now have too many buttons, switches, levers and touch-screen options, which are highly distracting for drivers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

Infantino’s ability to push the right buttons of world leaders isn’t reserved for the president.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

However, Kathryn said she tried everything to stop "intrusive" adverts but updating her settings or clicking on mark as spam buttons did not prevent baby adverts popping up on her feeds weeks after a miscarriage.

From BBC Jun. 3, 2026

I pushed buttons and all thoughts of Colton out of my head—at least I tried to—and dialed every auto supply, hair salon, pharmacy, antique store, grocery, and diner in town.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

Appearing remotely via video-link wearing a partially buttoned pale blue shirt, Brand, the ex-husband of popstar Katy Perry, only spoke to confirm his name and his date of birth.

From Barron's Jan. 20, 2026

A year after graduating, he began designing menswear at Stirling Copper and was responsible for the body-hugging, buttoned trousers Sir Mick Jagger wore during The Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter tour in 1969.

From BBC Dec. 17, 2025

As he buttoned up a professional baseball uniform for the first time in his life, he understood that he was becoming the guinea pig in an experiment that has the whole industry watching.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 25, 2025

The first episode featured a noticeably stiff Piker standing in front of the camera, wearing a lavender shirt buttoned up to his collar.

From Slate Feb. 18, 2025

His cousin s wife, Ojiugo, had once said, “English people will live next to you for years but they will never greet you. It is as if they have buttoned themselves up.”

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Instead of clocking into a cubicle for a traditional 9-to-5 and buttoning corporate uniforms each morning, some new grads are spinning records from 5 p.m. to 9 a.m. or writing Substack newsletters from cafes.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 28, 2026

It can get worse over time and make daily activities like buttoning a shirt difficult.

From BBC Nov. 22, 2024

A smart person would respond to Carroll's new court filing by buttoning up.

From Salon May 24, 2023

On Instagram, Matthews shared updates of the twins, capturing moments such as La'Niyah buttoning up her sister’s sweater and the family out on a long bike ride.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 31, 2022

Her veil and linen duster were on the floor beside the bee, which she had stomped to death, and Miss Love was buttoning her shirtwaist.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns




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