casual contact

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noun

the level of contact at which a person is not subject to contracting a communicable disease from another, especially nonsexual contact with a person infected with a venereal disease.

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Which one of these commonly confused words can act as an adverb or a pronoun?

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there

they're

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Words nearby casual contact

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Example sentences from the Web for casual contact

Ney said McDonnell needs to “keep a stiff lip” and stay in close contact with family members.
Abramoff’s Advice for Virginia’s New Jailhouse Guv|Tim Mak, Jackie Kucinich|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone|Samantha Levine|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The spokesman also said that Ambassador King “did not view the movie and did not have any contact directly with Sony.”
Exclusive: Sony Emails Say Studio Exec Picked Kim Jong-Un as the Villain of ‘The Interview’|William Boot|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In fact, he was in contact with Lansky prior to converging from the hillside onto the streets of Havana.
Will Hyman Roth Return to Havana With Normalized Relations?|John L. Smith|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST

And it was such casual racism by people in the halls of power.
Ava DuVernay on ‘Selma,’ the Racist Sony Emails, and Making Golden Globes History|Marlow Stern|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Before Ulm he nearly ruined Napoleon's combination by failing to get in contact with the enemy.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
"I was just going to ask you if you all came through together," he observed, in a casual tone.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
The intensity of this drama, however, being interior, caused little outward disturbance that casual onlookers need have noticed.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
It is sometimes indented, with its convex side in contact with the periphery of the cell.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
It was painfully evident to the most casual observer, that she had died of absolute starvation.
The World Before Them|Susanna Moodie

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