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"press the pause button" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it whenever you need to explain that an action or process should be temporarily interrupted. For example, "I'm tired and need to take a break – let's press the pause button before continuing this conversation."
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Someone needs to press the pause button, or this will end very badly.
In the age of the 24-hour news cycle, thriller writers still need to press the pause button.
And, as read by the ultra-cool Dominic West, it will leave you physically unable to press the pause button.
"I was concerned about the policy," he explained to reporters, and thought it best to press "the pause button".
President Obama said: "I have expressed some concerns, and I don't think I am alone.. I think it would have been preferable to press the pause button".
Rather than prop up nearly three years of failed negotiations, politicians must now be honest with the electorate about what can realistically be achieved and prepare to press the pause button.
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This makes mother and daughter Anne and Stephanie Brownsley, wearing the velvet costume cloaks visitors can don as they tour the palace, press the pause buttons on their audio guides.
He presses the pause button.
But he also repeatedly pressed the pause button.
But the alcohol industry had not pressed the pause button.
It's as if someone had pressed the pause button on the universe and everything stood still.
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Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com