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trenching (on)

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present participle of trench (on)

as in touching (on)

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

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In a 2020 study, physicist Robert Spreeuw proposed that light could produce off-axis forces resembling the Magnus effect.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
The special effects are jerkily unrealistic, resembling the graphics in The Sims.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026

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