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touch base with

Idioms  
  1. Make contact or renew communications with, as in I'll try to touch base with you when I'm in Ohio, or The candidate touched base with every ethnic group in the city. This idiom comes from baseball, where a runner must touch each base without being tagged before a run can be scored.


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“It’s a lot easier for me to touch base with people who can get them on the phone and say, ‘50 wants to talk to you.’

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 14, 2025

“Many times people will make the effort to come back and touch base with me or leave a note that they appreciated that it was still here in our community,” Belcher said.

From Seattle Times Apr. 19, 2023

Ford continues to touch base with another man who has been blind since birth and lives in a shelter in Southeast Washington.

From Washington Post Jan. 5, 2023

Oswant recommends people touch base with lifeguards before going into the waves, and swimming in front of lifeguard stands.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2022

We had asked her to touch base with our witnesses before the hearing to go over last-minute details and calm their nerves.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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