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trenches (on)

verb

present tense third-person singular of trench (on)

as in touches (on)

to come very close to being that response trenches on outright rudeness

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That seems to be one of the reasons Iran’s Supreme Leader appointed him as the head of the Islamic Republic’s Supreme National Security Council.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
Haley, Kotb’s first daughter, seems to have picked up her mother’s spirit of giving.

— Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026

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At 57th and Fifth, Louis Vuitton’s in-house team has erected a 240-foot-tall construction shed that resembles a stack of six luggage trunks covered in its signature logo.

— Lauren Sinclair, Curbed, 7 Aug. 2026
The pattern resembles a red team whose members can clone themselves, work simultaneously and copy every useful discovery to colleagues almost instantly.

— Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

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