push button
Example Sentences
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The reachability enabled by digital command also produced anxiety—if anyone could gain access to a push button, how could society maintain control over the unskilled, incompetent, or evil-doing controller?
From Slate • Jun. 20, 2022
“In ’80, there was no push button, come-rescue-me button.
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2017
A large push button replaced the steering, and light sensors mounted underneath the car will allow it to follow a line of tape along the floor whenever Scarlett hits the button.
From Washington Times • Dec. 19, 2016
When AT&T unveiled the first commercial push button phone in 1963, part of its pitch was simple: calling someone would be faster than it was on rotary phones.
From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2011
The push button is an essential part of every electric bell, because without it the bell either would not ring at all, or would ring incessantly until the cell was exhausted.
From General Science by Clark, Bertha M.