as in touching (on)
to come very close to being
that response trenches on outright rudeness
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The vehicle is a callback to the very first Tesla, the 2008 Roadster, which was a compact, two-seater sports car resembling a Lotus Elise that is credited with helping to change the public's perception of electric vehicles.—
Keith Laing,
USA Today,
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) peered 10,000 light-years into space to trace the origin of buckyballs, which are large and hollow molecules resembling a soccer ball.—
Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Trenching (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trenching%20%28on%29. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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