How to Use hot button in a Sentence
hot button
noun- The film is considered very controversial for all the hot buttons it pushes.
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Benton said this may be the next hot button issue the board faces.
—Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2021
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The Hopkins police force is a hot button issue in the city and has been so for the past few years.
—Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 30 Sep. 2022
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Depending on the hot button issue, the banning of books can come from the right or the left.
—Marybeth Gasman, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
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It's become a hot button issue in states across the country.
—ABC News, 20 June 2021
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Eggs and housing costs have been some of the inflationary hot buttons around the nation for the past year or so.
—Russ Wiles, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
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Placing a shelter in Venice has been a hot button issue for years.
—Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
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Keeping up with the local teams and the hot button issues of the Bay Area is mandatory for her radio gig.
—Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 July 2021
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The same was true for another hot button case about Ohio's method for purging voters from its rolls.
—CNN, 7 Apr. 2018
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After all, many of us tend to have strong opinions on any number of hot button topics from world hunger and healthcare to climate change.
—Jarl Jensen, Forbes, 5 May 2022
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On Survivor, there’s no more hot button issue than food hoarding.
—Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 2 Nov. 2017
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The question of what to do with the property has become a political hot button.
—Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2022
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The best thing to do if technoference is a hot button issue in your relationship?
—Nikki Campo, SELF, 3 May 2022
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Steve Sarkisian discovered what a hot button issue the school song can be in his second season at Texas.
—Dallas News, 24 Oct. 2022
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While the film is not a right-wing versus left-wing doc, guns, religion and the first amendment – all hot button political issues — are part of the film.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 26 Nov. 2021
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He's seen as vulnerable this year because the race is centered on the hot button issue of housing.
—OregonLive.com, 2 May 2018
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Border issues are, and will continue to be, a hot button topic leading up to the 2024 elections.
—Angel Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
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Rising rents appear to be a hotter button for single women than for men.
—Kenneth R. Harney, miamiherald, 7 May 2018
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Back in the conference room, Jay brings the discussion around to a hot button issue: reparations.
—Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 30 Apr. 2020
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San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich is never one to shy away from touching on hot button issues and giving his own hot take about the state of the country.
—Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 25 July 2022
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Months after the spy balloon incident, China's efforts to surveil the U.S. are still a hot button issue.
—Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 16 June 2023
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Hockey has become a hot button issue in Connecticut, and in all of New England.
—Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 5 Nov. 2020
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What’s your advice for discussing a hot button issue with someone who clearly sees the world through a lens that’s different from yours?
—Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
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The last panel addressed one of the industry’s hot button topics, at least since the beginning of the pandemic: safety and health.
—Betsy Blumenthal, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Dec. 2020
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For driver advocates, sick pay has been the hot button labor issue of the pandemic.
—Aarian Marshall, Wired, 7 June 2020
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Equal pay remains the hot button issue in women's soccer, with the U.S. women's national team leading the charge.
—Avi Creditor, SI.com, 10 Sep. 2019
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For his part, Alex is frustrated that something as simple as trying to play sports with his peers has become such a hot button issue.
—Condé Nast, SELF, 24 Aug. 2023
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The submissions from here focus on the universal hot button subject of climate change.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Dec. 2023
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Following the report, TikTok once again became a hot button issue in the nation’s capital.
—Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
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But it's always meant to get a reaction, whether from allies or critics, especially on hot button topics such as immigration and crime.
—Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2024
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