as in bordering (on)
to come very close to being
that behavior touches on insanity
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Construction in the Arizona desert damaged an enormous Indigenous ground etching resembling a fish that is thought to be at least 1,000 years old.—
Jake Spring,
Washington Post,
1 May 2026 -
The fiber-optic drones are in such wide use that footage shows front-line Ukrainian towns coated with shiny, fishing line-like strings, resembling massive spiderwebs shimmering in the sunlight.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
30 Apr. 2026
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Influencer culture has always been about commodifying intimacy—and, at a certain point, authenticity stopped seeming to really matter to people.—
T. M. Brown,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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Each painting has a luminous quality to it, with figures and textiles seeming to glow from within.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Touching (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/touching%20%28on%29. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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