hot-button

plural hot-buttons · alternative hot button · alternative hotbutton

1. alternativeAlternative form of hot button.

   What will trigger my hot-button?

   1998, Ginny Pearson Barnes, Successful Negotiating: Letting the Other Person Have Your Way, →ISBN

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   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.

   1995, Scott D. Wright, Human ecology: progress through integrative perspectives, page 262

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

   2012, Jay L. Lebow, Twenty-First Century Psychotherapies, →ISBN

alternative hot button · alternative hotbutton

1. not comparableArousing intense reactions; eliciting strong emotion or controversy.

   a hot-button issue

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   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.

   2005, Dave Zirin, What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States, →ISBN

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

   2014, Roland L. Bessette, The Empress of Graniteport, →ISBN

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

   2017, Jennifer Weiner, Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing, page 284

   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.

   2019 July 12, David A. Graham, “The Overhyped Feud Between Nancy Pelosi and AOC”, in The Atlantic