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"We set out to identify cells that push the self-destruct button but survive anyway," Braun explains.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

"I think at some stage we need to open the communication channels because, you know, you can't have a conversation if you're pressing the mute button," but "so far there's no timeline for it".

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

Cher was widely reported to be the first woman to show her belly button on US television - and Mackie's designs were pivotal to that.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

I recollect a button I once saw in a shop on Elm Street, the main drag through, yes, downtown Manchester!

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Coal pressed the button and the bus stopped.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

“If they can kind of identify each other, wear the buttons or hand them out to the community, it’s kind of a signal,” she said.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

Her hands shook as she punched the buttons into the safe’s keypad, entering the wrong combination.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The faces of lions are delicately piped in three dimensions on the buttons of a piece based on a suit worn by Elizabeth Taylor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Once everything is in place, Gardner tests the fire — there are buttons he presses with each thumb to ignite the flame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

They began pooling resources, and Max brought me four gold buttons, some earrings, and two coats to sell.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

It’s hard to get buttoned up and take things seriously.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

Appearing remotely via video-link wearing a partially buttoned pale blue shirt, Brand, the ex-husband of popstar Katy Perry, only spoke to confirm his name and his date of birth.

From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026

A year after graduating, he began designing menswear at Stirling Copper and was responsible for the body-hugging, buttoned trousers Sir Mick Jagger wore during The Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter tour in 1969.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025

As he buttoned up a professional baseball uniform for the first time in his life, he understood that he was becoming the guinea pig in an experiment that has the whole industry watching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

I buttoned my sweater all wrong in my haste and stuffed my feet into my shoes without bothering to tie them.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Instead of clocking into a cubicle for a traditional 9-to-5 and buttoning corporate uniforms each morning, some new grads are spinning records from 5 p.m. to 9 a.m. or writing Substack newsletters from cafes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

Bloomberg reported on March 26 that OpenAI was close to buttoning up the $40-billion financing deal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025

It can get worse over time and make daily activities like buttoning a shirt difficult.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2024

A smart person would respond to Carroll's new court filing by buttoning up.

From Salon ● May 24, 2023

Sometimes she brushed his jacket free of hair and dandruff; he adjusted her worn quilt robe in return, tugging at the shoulders, buttoning the rhinestone buttons.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen