as in touched (on)
to come very close to being
that response trenches on outright rudeness
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By 2017, though, the Swedish DJ seemed to have reignited his passion for songwriting — and was doing his best to look inward with the hopes of discovering the key to happiness.—
Rachel DeSantis,
People.com,
4 Jan. 2025 -
Initially, things seemed to go well.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
4 Jan. 2025
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New Orleans’ offense resembled a preseason roster on paper, and that’s not hyperbole.—
The Athletic NFL Staff,
The Athletic,
24 Dec. 2024
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What these 28 events resembled was a strange and, until now, seemingly unique cosmic explosion called ASASSN-16oh, which was detected in 2016 by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae and which the team now thinks was a millinova.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
23 Dec. 2024
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“Trenched (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trenched%20%28on%29. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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