touch (on)

verb

Definition of touch (on)next
as in to seem
to come very close to being that behavior touches on insanity

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  1. seem
  2. resemble
  3. suggest
Verb
  • According to Pavlovich, though, Gaiman did not seem to have boundaries around his son.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Biogas may seem renewable on its face; so long as people consume dairy, cows will keep generating manure.
    Kenny Torrella, Vox, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of seem
Verb
  • The 500,000-square-foot museum (slated to open sometime in 2025) will be home to both a planetarium and a giant-screen theater, as well as a spiraling ramp resembling a twisting DNA strand that also acts as exhibition space.
    Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The fact that language models work at all is proof that something resembling language learning can happen without any of the specialized machinery Chomsky proposed.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of resemble
Verb
  • The president – former President Trump's nominee for Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has called this issue of extremism in the military a sham, suggesting that perhaps some of the efforts to end – to combat extremism are going to end.
    ABC News, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Other scholarship has similarly suggested that excluding Chinese labor failed to lift the fortunes of white workers.
    Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of suggest
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