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  • "Klaus is a button-pusher, so if he does something Tyler finds difficult, the next time he's going to try something even more difficult," Joseph Morgan says.

    The Vampire Diaries' Michael Trevino: Bill Forbes Will (Try To) Break Tyler's Sire Bond 2012

  • He or she is just a button-pusher, looking to push buttons.

    Obama: Review Finds No ‘Inappropriate’ Contacts With Blagojevich - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Most important of all, they were a way for Desmond (button-pusher No. 1) to pass on his life's work to the castaways who discovered the hatch in season two.

    The Myth of Cuselof 2010

  • Most important of all, they were a way for Desmond (button-pusher No. 1) to pass on his life's work to the castaways who discovered the hatch in season two.

    The Myth of Cuselof 2010

  • In the Post, Mike Vaccaro brings in almost as many metaphors as Girardi had pitchers: the Yankees 'manager is a kid opening Christmas presents, then he's a Little League manager, then a button-pusher and lever-puller, and then a gambler shooting craps.

    Today in Local Sports Coverage: On the Razor's Edge With Monkeys 2009

  • I don't seem to recall that the denizens at the Termite Terrace were even as well off as I am, and those guys are legends who built an animation dynasty, whereas I'm a fiddling little CG button-pusher.

    The Giants Among Us Steve Hulett 2009

  • I don't seem to recall that the denizens at the Termite Terrace were even as well off as I am, and those guys are legends who built an animation dynasty, whereas I'm a fiddling little CG button-pusher.

    The Giants Among Us Steve Hulett 2009

  • That one little mantra has helped me avoid more misunderstanding and mistakes than anything else I'd learned in my 3 years as a Manufacture Technician (glorified button-pusher).

    Fraud US-Style: Fake Videos and Elections 2008

  • Whether the tritium and DU blasts are scheduled on the calendar or they occur at the whim of the detonator button-pusher on duty at Livermore that day, there appears to be some big project going on in the hills near San Francisco.

    Depleted Uranium Poison Targets US Citizens 2007

  • The amount raised ran into the thousands and the lucky button-pusher was a 12 year old boy.

    Imploding the Q Ed Hollett 2007

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