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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for push button
Noun
  • There will be a new moon in your sign on April 17, which is essentially a reset button that encourages you to start again, in a bold new way.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026
  • After no one showed up, the passenger pushed an SOS button and was told that staff were on their way.
    ABC News, ABC News, 1 Apr. 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 now is to foster stronger intracontinental dialogue—turning these events from mere entry points into active hubs of exchange among artists, institutions, and audiences.
    Smooth Nzewi, Artforum, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Overall, the key is to meet a cat’s natural climbing needs in appropriate ways rather than trying to stop the instinct entirely.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 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 3 Apr. 2026.

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