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Recent Examples of button
Noun
But even if the activation button had been pressed, more than a third of the sirens weren’t working, and a later test showed that the button at the fire alarm office wasn’t either. Cassandra Garibay, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026 Take a moment before clicking any button. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Mar. 2026
Verb
By the time the Yankees’ 2025 season came to an end, Carlos Rodón couldn’t bend his money-making left arm or button a shirt. Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2026 While some netminders tend to button up in big situations, Dostál seems increasingly eager to not only play the puck but make plays with it as the stakes elevate. Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 25 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for button
Recent Examples of Synonyms for button
Noun
  • What Costco actually did is de-weaponize the healthcare lever within the system.
    Charles Edward Gehrke, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2026
  • For anyone in the 62-to-70 window who is already making consequential financial choices about healthcare coverage and retirement income, this is another lever worth pulling.
    Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Facts about law-enforcement officers, such as their names, badge numbers, and work license plates, don’t typically qualify.
    Oriana van Praag, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
  • A day before the conference kicks off, regional funders Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and the Film- und Medienverband NRW and producer group Produktionsallianz will run a conference event called Story Vision Europe that Seriencamp badge holders can attend.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • His most successful offenses in Baltimore were built around one of the most dynamic, dual-threat quarterbacks in NFL history, Lamar Jackson, who could toggle between power run concepts, RPO-heavy designs, and vertical play-action shots.
    Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
  • At his dining-room table, in a new home in a scraggly stretch of New Orleans’s Seventh Ward, Rob toggled between Facebook and WhatsApp on both his phone and laptop.
    Daniel Brook, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • This peripheral features silent key switches with additional sound-damping material in the chassis, as well as dedicated shortcut keys and a volume knob.
    Aubrey Jowers, PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The video depicted fingers on a MIDI keyboard, turning knobs, pushing buttons and supposedly composing the song in real time.
    Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Before her, two figures ― a soldier and sailor ― clasp hands in fraternity.
    Bill Steiden, Des Moines Register, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The memory foam pillow has considered everything, from an adjustable toggle clasp to secure the pillow comfortably around your neck, to a handy side pocket ideal for storing headphones or earplugs.
    Meaghan Kenny, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the flop of the funding deal has given Democrats another chance to pin the partial shutdown on House Republicans.
    Stephen Groves, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2026
  • When gas prices are up, the party not in power is likely to pin it on the party in power.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 21 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The second Calibre 8915, the Luxe, will find its home on the other precious-metal models in the line, either made with the brand’s 18-karat Sedna, Moonshine, or Canopus gold seen across the case, the hand-guilloché dial, and, of course, the movement itself.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Over the radio, Bing Crosby is crooning, Bob Hope is joking, and news of the war — against Hitler, against Japan — keeps sizzling and crackling across the dial.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Sprinkle Mosquito Bits granules into the water that collects in the center of the leafy rosette to prevent Aedes mosquitoes from breeding there.
    Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The Lady in Silver Dress, whose dainty rosette touches and sheer organza layer will add whimsy to all your dinner parties from hereon out.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 26 Feb. 2026

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“Button.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/button. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.

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