as in touching (on)
to come very close to being
that response trenches on outright rudeness
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The course made for entertaining theater, resembling almost a snow park of assorted obstacles.—
ABC News,
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And yet, because human judgments are also expressed through language, the model’s answers often end up resembling human answers on the surface.—
Walter Quattrociocchi,
Scientific American,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Trenching (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trenching%20%28on%29. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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