as in touching (on)
to come very close to being
that response trenches on outright rudeness
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resembling
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Regardless of who is to blame for the play, the Chiefs' offense in totality has not looked anything resembling the team that made it to the Super Bowl just last year.—
Reice Shipley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
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How will these already infamous scenes fall into order in their minds and coalesce into something resembling history?—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Trenching (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trenching%20%28on%29. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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