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hot-button
[ hot-buht-n ]
adjective
- exciting strong feelings; highly charged; emotional:
hot-button issues.
hot button
noun
- informal.
- a controversial subject or issue that is likely to arouse strong emotions
- ( as modifier )
the hot-button issue of abortion
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hot-button1
Example Sentences
Democrats have no more claim to Latino identity than Republicans, and the idea that putting partisans from both camps under the same ethnic tent might bring about commonality on hot-button issues such as reproductive rights or mass deportations is nonsense.
But it never found a U.S. distributor, as streamers and studios have shied away from hot-button documentaries.
Corbet: It’s funny to me because so many production companies make companies like our partners at Respeecher sign NDAs because of this being such a hot-button topic.
Bonta has become the face of California’s legal resistance to the second Trump administration, squaring off over new executive orders on gender, immigration and other hot-button issues.
For the first of what’s certain to be many times, following a blockbuster offseason of seemingly limitless roster spending, Dodgers players were asked about the same hot-button topic last weekend.
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