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Recent Examples of button
New York Times Games, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2025
The jacket featured long sleeves, three buttons running down the front placket, pockets and a sharp collar.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 5 Feb. 2025
Liam Hess, Vogue, 17 Jan. 2025
But to a grand degree, McDermott had been buttoned up until now.
—Joe Buscaglia, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Use the Help button in the Settings menu of the Games app.
—New York Times Games, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2025
The jacket featured long sleeves, three buttons running down the front placket, pockets and a sharp collar.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 5 Feb. 2025
Verb
Slacks, a blazer, and a shirt buttoned to the top without a tie—meticulous, with a base note of the unexpected.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 17 Jan. 2025
But to a grand degree, McDermott had been buttoned up until now.
—Joe Buscaglia, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for button
Noun
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Cass jerked open the lever again and an unused shell arcked out and fell in the leaves beside the bleeding hound.—
Frank C. Hibben,
Outdoor Life,
13 Feb. 2025
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CFOs need to be able to pull multiple levers to maintain control of their cash, especially in response to customers wanting to bring forward orders to get ahead of tariffs.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes,
11 Feb. 2025
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This is an industry sometimes associated with violence, so gated compounds with private security and badge systems are more like sanctuaries that give artists a sense of safety.—
Shaun Fabos,
Rolling Stone,
10 Feb. 2025
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When the door was cracked open, there were young people with temporary badges.—
Chris Megerian,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The company says that the latest model will also incorporate new features, including the ability to tap into web searches, call functions from a user’s code, and toggle between different reasoning levels that trade off speed for problem solving capabilities.—
Will Knight,
WIRED,
31 Jan. 2025
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These aesthetic flourishes find an auditory corollary in Kenneth Blume’s swelling, spectral score, which toggles between sinister and ecstatic.—
Natalia Winkelman,
IndieWire,
28 Jan. 2025
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Its retro design, which skips a color screen for a slim digital display set below tactile knobs, stokes nostalgia while delivering excellent sound quality.—
Parker Hall,
WIRED,
30 Jan. 2025
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The crystal shifter and twist knob ignition are also nice touches.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The large, white metal sheet hung delicately from the crane's yellow clasps as crews moved it onto the barrage.—
Christopher Cann,
USA TODAY,
3 Feb. 2025
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Then, pick out a bowling bag (one with long shoulder straps) to easily clip, clasp, and loop accessories through.—
Cortne Bonilla,
Vogue,
22 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Next, loop your pony into a bun, and pin it in place (but keeping some of the ends out).—
Ariana Yaptangco,
Glamour,
7 Feb. 2025
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Musk pinned a post on X Wednesday that is a direct response to a video Michigan Democratic Rep. Melanie Stansbury shared from a protest led by fellow Democrats at the Treasury Department earlier this week.—
Will Steakin,
ABC News,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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However, Kellogg's comments suggest that the Trump administration is still considering further sanctions on Russia to move the dial on the war in Ukraine.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
8 Feb. 2025
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, set in 1969, follows Indy and his estranged goddaughter Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) in a rip-roaring race against time to keep the titular dial out of the hands of Nazi-turned-NASA-scientist Jürgen Voller (Mads Mikkelsen).—
EW.com,
EW.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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Ahead of her hosting duties, the stand-up comedian made her mark in a gold silk satin Prabal Gurung column gown featuring an overskirt and rosette detail at the hip.—
Brittany Talarico,
People.com,
6 Jan. 2025
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Pruning stimulates vigorous growth which will be more susceptible to the fatal fire blight. Annuals and perennials ▪ Selectively removing only obviously diseased portions of roses infected with rose rosette virus.—
Neil Sperry,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Button.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/button. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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