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  • A decision involving the real death of a real creature, not the press-button splatting of some alien or "terrorist" on a computer screen.

    We're all hooked on fishing now 2010

  • This was followed by an interminable recorded message with innumerable press-button options.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • This was followed by an interminable recorded message with innumerable press-button options.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • What was presumably the control panel on the top of the box was singularly unimpressive and old-fashioned, reminiscent of a pre-war radio, with two calibrated dials, some knobs, a press-button and two orange hemispherical glass domes let into the surface.

    Santorini MacLean, Alistair 1986

  • Even the press-button playback newscasts always available on specified channels of the TV wavelengths, when you adjusted the coverage to go at a speed to suit yourself, palled in Ward's estimation beside the solid, genuine feel of a news­paper.

    Behold the Stars Bulmer, Kenneth, 1921- 1965

  • The action of the contact key will be understood from figure 84, where P is the press-button removed to show the underlying mechanism, which is merely a metal spring A over a metal plate B.

    The Story of Electricity John Munro 1889

  • B is a small battery, say two or three "dry" or Leclanche cells, joined by insulated wire to P, a press-button or contact key, and

    The Story of Electricity John Munro 1889

  • An outbreak of fire can be announced by causing the undue rise of temperature to melt a piece of tallow or fusible metal, and thus release a weight, which tails on a press-button, and closes the circuit of an electric bell.

    The Story of Electricity John Munro 1889

  • "It sounds like someone being strangled," says a cheerful caption beside a press-button display which fills the reception area with the sedge warblers or skylark song.

    The Guardian World News Martin Wainwright 2011

  • {Pring Street U#lum Before snack time staff dissolved packs of juice crystals in two large, insulated black plastic boxes with press-button spigots.

    Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum 8

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