Hot-button

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of hot button. alt-of, alternative

    "As is usually the casee when the use of stimulant medications like Ritalin makes it into mainstream media, the [Sroufe] piece pushed emotional hot-buttons in a way that would scare the daylights out of uninformed readers and lead them to avoid ever using such medications or allowing their children to, thereby giving up on a class of medications with enormous potential benefits."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Arousing intense reactions; eliciting strong emotion or controversy. not-comparable

    "a hot-button issue"

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"Colonizing Mars is just starting to become a hot-button issue."

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