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Players can now freely control the camera, and this time Link can jump with the press of a button.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
If you’ve been hovering over that “subscribe to Slate Plus” button, now is the time to join.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
White button mushrooms are a valuable specialty crop and a familiar ingredient in everything from salads and appetizers to everyday meals.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
A woman pressed a button on her iPad—summoning a drone operator, with whom she exchanged a few words.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
I pressed the button for the seventh floor.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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There are Oompa-Loompas of various sizes, including Rusty Goffe, from the 1971 film, who perform Oompa-Loompa dances and sing Oompa-Loompa songs and are seen offstage pushing buttons and pulling levers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
“If they can kind of identify each other, wear the buttons or hand them out to the community, it’s kind of a signal,” she said.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Her hands shook as she punched the buttons into the safe’s keypad, entering the wrong combination.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Boss buttons have been features of countless diversions since.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Soldiers, wearing crisp uniforms with shiny buttons and carefully polished shoes, were lined up in neat rows, saluting him.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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“It’s an exciting time to come in as we build out the executive team to help guide the next stage and make sure we’re buttoned up for the long haul.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
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
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
She scraped open the gate against the cement walk, and I quickly buttoned my blouse.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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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
“I’m very happy,” he said, “with the way audiences have embraced the show, and with the journey that Taylor has created in the present time and in buttoning it up the way he always would.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024
It can get worse over time and make daily activities like buttoning a shirt difficult.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2024
We first hear the song as Tony is getting ready to go out, blow-drying his hair, trying on various gold chains and meticulously buttoning his best dress shirt.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2022
Hatsue Imada was standing in the foyer of the Amity Harbor Buddhist Chapel, buttoning her coat after services, when Georgia Yamashita’s mother told the people gathered there the news about Pearl Harbor.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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