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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Hiding in dark places, scuttling in the daylight, allergic to real, authentic human contact. Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025 The 11 men and three women describe getting little to no mental health treatment, and almost no human contact. Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2025 Cats that resist human contact often require extended socialization periods, which some shelters cannot sustain due to overcrowding and staffing limits. 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 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 31 Oct. 2025.

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