Thesaurus results for TOUCH (ON)

touch (on)

verb

Definition of touch (on)

as in to seem

to come very close to being that behavior touches on insanity

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But the wrist issue hasn’t seemed to affect Antetokounmpo’s jumper despite the injury being connected to his shooting hand.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2026
The highest points of 2022’s Nymph, Shygirl’s full-length debut, seemed to herald the coronation of an art-pop auteur.

— Walden Green, Pitchfork, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of seem

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Scientists have built a computer model of Earth without life to help determine whether distant planets could host living organisms or merely have conditions that resemble those of an inhabited world.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
If there’s a golden ratio for success in the fashion business, its illustration might resemble a tetrahedron.

— Miles Socha, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of resemble

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In 2025, Google’s Craig Gidney published research suggesting RSA-2048 could theoretically be factored with fewer than one million noisy physical qubits under specific engineering assumptions, a dramatic reduction from previous estimates.

— Peter Smulovics, Forbes.com, 12 Nov. 2026
Virgo August 23 – September 22 Your idea may be more promising than the first attempt suggests.

— Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2026

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