Thesaurus results for TOUCHING (ON)

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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Some are placed on a sculpture resembling the Rub el Hizb, an Islamic star shaped like an octagram.

— Siran Babayan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
China has leveraged its manufacturing ecosystem, battery supply chain, rapid product iteration, vertical integration and competitive domestic market to build an EV industry resembling the consumer electronics sector.

— Vincent Yang, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026

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Staff described students as often seeming physically and mentally worn down and checked out.

— Crystal Cederna, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026
Others show pitas and sandwiches with sauces spread in a latticed pattern, or tortillas with odd speckles that might be the computer’s attempt at natural-seeming char from a comal.

— Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026

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