"hot-button" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1995, Scott D. Wright, Human ecology: progress through integrative perspectives, page 262:",
          "text": "As is usually the casee when the use of stimulant medications like Ritalin makes it into mainstream media, the [Sroufe] piece pushed emotional hot-buttons in a way that would scare the daylights out of uninformed readers and lead them to avoid ever using such medications or allowing their children to, thereby giving up on a class of medications with enormous potential benefits.",
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          "ref": "1998, Ginny Pearson Barnes, Successful Negotiating: Letting the Other Person Have Your Way, →ISBN:",
          "text": "What will trigger my hot-button?",
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          "ref": "2012, Jay L. Lebow, Twenty-First Century Psychotherapies, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Therapist: As you can see, this particular thought represents a hot-button emotionally for Susan",
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          "text": "It was too hot-button, too controversial for the athlete.",
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          "ref": "2014, Roland L. Bessette, The Empress of Graniteport, →ISBN:",
          "text": "This would be hot-button if Slade lived in Alaska.",
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          "ref": "2017, Jennifer Weiner, Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing, page 284:",
          "text": "Her platform was AIDS awareness—a big deal for an organization whose representatives usually embraced less hot-button causes.",
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          "ref": "2019 July 12, David A. Graham, “The Overhyped Feud Between Nancy Pelosi and AOC”, in The Atlantic:",
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          "text": "This would be hot-button if Slade lived in Alaska.",
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