Hotbutton
"Hotbutton" in a Sentence (12 examples)
Listen for others' 'hotbuttons' and use them to your advantage.
This time he focused his message on the economic hotbuttons of the average shareholder.
By employing emotional hotbuttons, advertisers are trying to open you up and get inside.
Who exactly is the notorious femme fatale, this fatal, evil, destructive woman with a long list of male casualties, who became the number-one linchpin of the feminist movement and one of the hotbuttons of feminist literary criticism?
The Wide Area Information Service (WAIS, pronounced "wayz") lets you look for specific words or phrases in a file, while the Web (WWW) gives you files with hypertext hotbuttons built in.
Roberts copied the files he mentioned onto Tom's CDR, attached a hotbutton to the footnote, which appeared as a thumbnail photo of Roberts next to the footnote, and the hotbutton to his commentary file.
SimpleMU presents you with a dialog with hotbuttons and pull down windows for connecting and playing a game.
Do I have to make some kind of link to another hotbutton, or is it possible to put abilities directly into socials?
In California, which has become the bellwether state on hotbutton racial issues like affirmative action and immigration, it surprises me that I wasn't aware of the Asian bloodlines among my own roommates.
No, you have just made the fatal mistake of letting me know that you have a hotbutton issue, that is all.
Their issue may be the teaching of evolution, sex education, the role of religion in the classroom, or any of a dozen hotbutton topics.
Better leave out religious texts however or there'll be riots :-) But even that won't produce the "right" answer for a lot of our hotbutton issues.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.