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

The online chatter about hot-button issues is reaching a fever pitch.

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.

What will trigger my hot-button?

Therapist: As you can see, this particular thought represents a hot-button emotionally for Susan

a hot-button issue

The newspaper published articles on the hot-button issues on the front page to attract attention.

It was too hot-button, too controversial for the athlete.

This would be hot-button if Slade lived in Alaska.

Her platform was AIDS awareness—a big deal for an organization whose representatives usually embraced less hot-button causes.

We’re only a few months into the Congress, and there are plenty of opportunities for bigger gulfs to appear; partisans agree on most things most of the time because most votes aren’t on hot-button issues.

The MAGA masses are growing disillusioned with Justice Department officials who are failing to deliver damning information on a laundry list of hot-button issues — especially Jeffrey Epstein's suicide.