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Recent Examples of button
Tantse Walter,
Space.com,
24 June 2026
For tiny frogs, survival is a high-stakes game with no pause button.
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Ana V. Longo,
The Conversation,
24 June 2026
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.
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Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
25 Nov. 2025
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Noun
Nikon has long been known for getting its button layouts right, and the Z8 is no exception.
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Tantse Walter,
Space.com,
24 June 2026
For tiny frogs, survival is a high-stakes game with no pause button.
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Ana V. Longo,
The Conversation,
24 June 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.
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for button
Noun
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But for some women, increasing earning power is the lever that creates more room than any expense cut ever could.
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Tom then explains the actual Trolley Problem, the philosophical debate about having to choose whether to pull a lever that will prevent a runaway trolley from killing multiple people, but will still result in the death of a single person.
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Being a designer’s first bride, particularly for someone as universally beloved and respected as Blazy and at a house as storied as this one, is a cultural badge of honor.
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Those of us who have worn the badge understand its limits.
Verb
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Professionals toggle between apps thousands of times a day, can't escape the pull of relentless notifications, and measure their worth in calendar density and email volume.
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On the Claw, the default settings in Expedition 33 kept a frame rate of around 30–40fps in the game’s opening area, but toggling on Intel’s XeSS upscaler and frame generation toggles gave me more like 70–90fps worth of smoothness.
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The knob controls volume and can be clicked to pause and resume content (double- or triple-clicking skips and reverses songs, respectively).
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Your left hand gets a 7-bar pad with 14 customizable assignments, while your right hand uses a pick-style strum knob with a dynamic up-down response.
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Coordinating with the clasp on her bag, Kate added a three-strand pearl bracelet that once belonged to Diana.
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Check for metal clasps, which can rust.
Verb
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Zayn kicked Gunther’s hands off the rope, allowing Rhodes to pin him.
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The success of Citadel, which manages $68 billion in its hedge fund and has a huge securities-trading operation, has always been hard to pin on any one thing, as The New Yorker’s Gary Sernovitz teases out in a profile out this week that observed how Griffin fits none of Wall Street’s archetypes.
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The company’s dial-and-click mechanism helped the brand sell millions of sets over two decades.
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In case of an emergency, dial 911.
Noun
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Cozying up to Holland on the red carpet, Zendaya showed off her asymmetrical skirt, which featured a hip-high slit on her left side that was crowned with a rosette.
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The dress was crafted with thick, halter-style straps and three spiral rosette appliqués.
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“Button.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/button. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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