push button

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Recent Examples of push button The toys include either a red or blue ball surrounded by an off-white disc shape, which also features soft push buttons and three free-spinning rings. Anna Halkidis, Parents, 22 Jan. 2026 Technology: Has a smart key system, push button start, plus a JBL premium audio and Wi-Fi connectivity on a 4G network. Tony Leopardo, Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2026 The lid is designed with a push button, which also doubles as a handle, to provide the best seal. Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2025 Our audio expert, Tim Gideon, found that the on-ear push button controls were simple to use and appreciated the option to customize long presses from ANC-transparency mode toggling (the default setting) to summoning voice assistants or volume control. Cierra Cowan, PC Magazine, 13 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for push button
Recent Examples of Synonyms for push button
Noun
  • The Dodgers hit the shuffle button on their playlist of popular jams, and the hits flowed on Tuesday night with a whole new tempo.
    Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 27 May 2026
  • Each comes with a text-to-speech button to help blind and low-vision riders, the transit agency says.
    Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • When leaders understand this connection, PHS shifts from a culture initiative to a business lever.
    Bill Howatt, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • The most effective lever, the group argues, is deficit reduction — which can ease near-term inflationary pressure, take downward pressure off long-term yields by reducing economic crowding-out, and shrink the debt stock on which the government pays interest.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • Marte is also a switch hitter and would immediately become Boston’s biggest power threat.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 31 May 2026
  • Daraxonrasib targets a mutation in a gene called KRAS, which works like an on/off switch controlling how cells grow in the body.
    Erika Edwards, NBC news, 31 May 2026
Noun
  • Forming each letter recruits the brain in ways tapping a key doesn’t.
    Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 27 May 2026
  • The key is not to collapse entirely into one side and exclude the other.
    Inga Bielińska, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • Adding electrifying, productive winger Nikolaj Ehlers and rangy, do-everything defenseman K’Andre Miller helped Carolina turn that dial to the right.
    Sean Gentille, New York Times, 28 May 2026
  • To give the watch an Americana feel, Zenith dialed in on, well, the dial, outfitting it with a smooth white lacquer and blue subdials.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • From Petra Hardware’s new line of knobs and pulls to Lichen’s exhibition of incense holders, the pleasure was in seeing everyday objects made strange and beautiful.
    Anthony Paletta, Curbed, 23 May 2026
  • The two-inch knob on the lid was also easy to grip.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 20 May 2026

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“Push button.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/push%20button. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.

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