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hot-button
[ hot-buht-n ]
adjective
- exciting strong feelings; highly charged; emotional:
hot-button issues.
hot button
noun
- informal.
- a controversial subject or issue that is likely to arouse strong emotions
- ( as modifier )
the hot-button issue of abortion
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hot-button1
First recorded in 1985–90
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Example Sentences
Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.
From The Daily Beast
In a hot-button cover story interview with Vanity Fair, Lawrence explained it best.
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However, the ongoing bloody conflict between Israel and Palestine is apparently still too scorching a hot-button issue to touch.
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Although any hot-button issue can lay bare the way fear fuels money in politics, the gun issue does it best.
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There are in fact hot-button issues, red lines of a sort, which will determine whether an eventual deal is palatable.
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