human contact
noun
: interaction with other people
She joined a book club to get a little human contact while the kids were in school.
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Cats that resist human contact often require extended socialization periods, which some shelters cannot sustain due to overcrowding and staffing limits.
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Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
In the show, which Lincoln Hiatt and Andrew Golder created, contestants are confined to isolation pods with no sense of day or night, no human contact and no alliances – somewhat against the grain of the current spate of guessing game formats that require contestants to form pacts.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
Reformers push for more human contact; correctional officers argue the tool is critical to safety.
—Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Most of this ecosystem has remained virtually unchanged by human contact.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 7 Oct. 2025
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Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
In the show, which Lincoln Hiatt and Andrew Golder created, contestants are confined to isolation pods with no sense of day or night, no human contact and no alliances – somewhat against the grain of the current spate of guessing game formats that require contestants to form pacts.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
Reformers push for more human contact; correctional officers argue the tool is critical to safety.
—Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Most of this ecosystem has remained virtually unchanged by human contact.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 7 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for human contact
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“Human contact.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/human%20contact. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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