as in bordering (on)
to come very close to being
that behavior touches on insanity
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It was originally built as a private cabin resembling a ship in the 1970s but had fallen into disrepair, which led her to christen the property the Shipwreck.
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That is the moment physical AI stops resembling traditional automation and starts behaving like software.
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The streets around City Hall had become a maze of barricades, checkpoints and police lines, with each turn seeming to produce a new instruction.
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Midway through the premiere, the season’s seeming thesis statement is delivered by Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel), perhaps the series’ most malleably moral character.
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“Touching (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/touching%20%28on%29. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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