1893 Nebraska State Jrnl. 3 May 4/4 Grover's button pushing feat was not much like General Grant's work at the opening of the Centennial exposition.

1935 E. Liverpool (Ohio) Rev. 10 Jan. 4/7 What will happen in evolution when the hardest work will be button-pushing, all manual labor being done by machinery?

1993 K. T. Berger Where Road & Sky Collide ii. vii. 280 That can all be done by button pushing... You can fax things around the world faster than you can get to the airport.

2003 M. Kraak & F. Ormeling Cartography (ed. 2) viii. 144/2 This used to be a time-consuming aspect of cartography but has now been reduced to mere button pushing when output is required, from which the printing plates will be made.

1912 Hearst's Mag. May 2343/1 Defeating a White House for renomination is no child's play of politics... It will be a question of wire-pulling and button-pushing.

1998 S. Fried Bitter Pills i. vi. 115 The topics were almost exactly the same, as was the level of orchestrated button-pushing.

2009 Time Out N.Y. 1 Jan. 70/2 Despite its rather highbrow pedigree, Good's journey along its predetermined path from book burnings to concentration camps reeks of middlebrow button-pushing.

2012 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 Dec. (Styles section) 10/5 I..don't need to hear anything from my ex except the things that have to do with children. I believe it is best..to avoid heated discussions that inevitably lead to button pushing.

1896 Sunday Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 20 Dec. 17/5 The battle of the future will be more of a contest between button-pushing scientists than an old-fashioned, but deadly, clash of arms.

1946 Mental Hygiene Oct. 537 Man invented the tool to make life easier for himself; he ends up using it to debase himself to a button-pushing automaton whose last act will be to push the button that will exterminate him.

1994 Rolling Stone 16 June 92/1 When component systems replaced phonographs, music lovers became button-pushing slaves.

2016 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 17 Apr. (Sunday Review section) 5 Even those pilots living the dream of flying for a mainline carrier say that in reality it's a highly automated, button-pushing kind of job.

1991 Newsweek 13 May 67/4 In ‘Truth or Dare’, she's at her button-pushing best.

2000 CMJ New Music Monthly Dec. 97/2 A bold, button-pushing film by the reigning bad boy of Korean cinema, Jang Sun-Woo.

2004 J. Townsend Who's pushing your Buttons? Introd. p. xxii The button-pushing person often has the power to influence how you handle your other attachments.

2015 S. Takacs Interrogating Pop. Culture 231 The Kony2012 campaign has become something of a poster-child for..political posturing that does little more than earn the button-pushing slacktivist social approval.