push button

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Recent Examples of push button The project will also include ADA-compliant curb ramps, new posts with pedestrian push buttons and posts, pedestrian barricades, protective railings and traffic striping. Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025 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 The push button starter provides some race-car flavor. Josh Max, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for push button
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Noun
  • Officers can also trigger deployment using the emergency button on APX NEXT radios.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Mar. 2026
  • There’s also the Bluetooth pairing button, a stereo pairing button, and a toggle for the bass-boosting Outdoor Mode.
    Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
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
  • The switch to a fall schedule will require a second dredging this year to make the transition.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Hayes carried the name and number of Dalton Knecht on his chest, a last-minute switch from originally swapping his jersey with Jarred Vanderbilt.
    Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The key will be a CEO’s awareness of where AI can drive growth and revenue opportunities whilst retaining the very essential human leadership and guidance that makes each business and division unique.
    Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Before leaving, the team made sure the device was running the latest firmware and showed me how the controls and safety key worked.
    Craig Rawlins-Wilson, PC Magazine, 25 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
  • 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

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

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