touched (on)

verb

Definition of touched (on)next
past tense of touch (on)
as in seemed
to come very close to being that behavior touches on insanity

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for touched (on)
  1. seemed
  2. resembled
  3. suggested
Verb
  • Other Surrealists, meanwhile, seemed to take from animals a license to exploit other (generally female) bodies, as in Clovis Trouille’sJustine(1937), in which both a naked female figure and a lion are bound and captive.
    — Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • To the outside observer, the hearing for the soft-spoken man with the graying mustache may have seemed like any other, save for the FBI agents from the public corruption squad sitting in the back.
    — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of seemed
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  • The standout performer is Yoane Wissa, who was signed after Isak’s defection last summer and then barely resembled a footballer.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • In a sequencer that resembled a large fridge, millions of short nucleic-acid fragments would be identified in the span of ten hours.
    — Jason Liebowitz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of resembled
Verb
  • After Chisholm stole third, Flemming suggested Morán should throw at Wells as retaliation against the Yankees.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Listing other kinds of methodology, Tlusty suggested that there’s still a lot of room for improvement with AI.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of suggested
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“Touched (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/touched%20%28on%29. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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