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"I would say that the buttonhole needling technique destroyed her life, certainly destroyed her health," says Dr Macanovic.

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2024

They relied on Griffin, who utilized her thick Rolodexes and neighborhood connections to buttonhole politicians, community members and others to fight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

They have lunches, meet at conferences, buttonhole departmental women visitors, set up private Facebook pages and Slack channels, and are all over Twitter.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 25, 2022

This opens the floor to everyone who has ideas — not just those with the loudest voices or the chutzpah to buttonhole leaders in passing to pitch their ideas.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2022

When Aunt Anne jerked him out, a piece of string connecting a buttonhole in his shirt with a buttonhole in the front of his trousers suddenly broke.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

And his simple Quaker-like garb, which contrasts with Houdon’s use of classical references in other portraits, is rendered meticulously, down to the threads of the unused buttonholes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The golf stories are narrated by the “oldest member” of an upper-class golf club who buttonholes unwary younger members to regale them with his memories of golfers he has known.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025

David Whelan said his brother must work at least eight hours a day, six days a week, on menial tasks like making buttonholes, which has caused him repetitive strain injury.

From Reuters ● Nov. 3, 2022

This he tailored into surprisingly well-fitting shirts and pants, complete with pockets, belt loops, and properly sewn buttonholes.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2022

We made sweat lodges out of broken branches dug back into the earth, covered over with our shirts tied together at the buttonholes.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

Tegmark buttonholed Elon Musk at a 2014 MIT conference on space, after one of his students asked a question that prompted the billionaire’s now-famous quip that, with AI, “we are summoning the demon.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026

At a moment of vulnerability, Harper is buttonholed by an old classmate named Sue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025

At the lighting ceremony, a non-Jewish man buttonholed the rabbi to thank him for procuring badly needed heart medicine for him during a spate of intense bombardment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

As the meeting broke up and council members prepared to meet with their lawyer, BLM 757 leader Japharii Jones, who had carried his black-and-white flag into the meeting, buttonholed Willis.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2021

The next day, a shaken Oppie buttonholed Kamen at the lab and revealed that he had just reported the unionization meeting to Ernest, who “blew a gasket.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

When Dr Macanovic examined the records of 15 patients using the buttonholing technique at the QA, she found infection rates four times higher than they experienced using the standard technique.

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2024

A young William Boeing showed up day after day, buttonholing every pilot he could for a skyride.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2023

Netanyahu continued the efforts until the last moment, according to reports from the chamber, buttonholing individual members overnight as the voting continued on more than 700 individual provisions.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2021

Later, both of them could be seen on the Senate floor buttonholing colleagues and talking through possible revisions to the bill.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021

Sir George in a corner is buttonholing Frederic and saddening him with last accounts of the Scapegrace.

From April's Lady A Novel by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford