lose touch
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“Just when did it happen,” Roy asks himself, “when exactly did you lose touch with your own humanity?”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
If clinicians could better distinguish voice hearers who develop psychosis and lose touch with reality from those who don’t, he thought, then maybe he could help steer more patients down a healthier path.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2025
But when they are bulldozed, their inhabitants lose touch with friends, documents, caseworkers, and public services.
From Slate • Jan. 22, 2025
“I don’t ever lose touch with the game of basketball,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2024
“Some people have suggested that Mirabelle will lose touch with her birth culture,” the producer said.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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