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push buttons

  • plural
    of push button.
    push button
    noun
    a device designed to close or open an electric circuit when a button or knob is depressed, and to return to a normal position when it is released.

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“You know how to push buttons really fast but don’t have the attention level to focus on your teacher,” said Horowitz-Kraus, head of the educational neuroimaging group at Technion, an Israeli university.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Indeed, like so many other contests this postseason, Game 6 would require Roberts to push buttons and pull levers with his patchwork pitching staff, having nothing but relievers available to cover nine season-defining innings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024

Pret's reporting system revealed there had been several call-outs relating to defective or frozen push buttons in the previous 19 months.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2023

But “Unicorn Wars” is forcefully provocative, trying too hard to push buttons at the cost of more nuanced explorations of masculinity and power.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023

I could use it to run, push buttons of one sort or another, make things happen.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood