touch on
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Also, touch upon.
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Mention briefly or casually in passing, as in He barely touched on the subject of immigration . [First half of 1600s]
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Approach closely, verge on, as in This frenzy touched on clinical insanity . [Early 1800s]
Example Sentences
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These films sometimes touch on themes of corruption and mob influence.
Austin Reaves put the finishing touches on the Lakers’ 135-118 win over the Clippers on Tuesday by scoring 18 of his 31 points in the fourth quarter.
From Los Angeles Times
“The vast majority of the world builds apartments this way. We are an outlier. It touches on the housing crisis, the affordability crisis.”
From Los Angeles Times
Mr. Eyman touches on a great sadness here, that of a lifelong insecurity that made a fiercely intelligent woman hide within a statue of her own making.
Dupieux’s movies tend to start out as traditional genre pictures, touching on crime, horror or science fiction.
From Los Angeles Times
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