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touching (on)

verb

Definition of touching (on)

present participle of touch (on)

as in bordering (on)

to come very close to being that behavior touches on insanity

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The contrast with Arsenal, a picture of stability, has dampened hopes of anything even remotely resembling a title race.

— Jack Lang, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
But the film was just one component of a larger interactive media project that includes an actual website resembling the fake news site seen in the film.

— Brian Welk, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026

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American sophistication has its sprezzatura—Astaire made an art of it—but characteristically turns effortlessness outward, into charm, something ingratiating and democratic-seeming.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
In walks an attractive similar-aged young lady seeming to require assistance, and that was my pivot point.

— Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026

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