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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.

Example Sentences

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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

The news outlet holds quarterly community meetings to touch base with residents and hear their concerns.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2024

“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

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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