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contact

[kon-takt] / ˈkɒn tækt /




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Sivarasa's family had earlier said they have had no direct contact with him since 28 September.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

And a "Stop Smart Glasses" campaign in Britain and Ireland has launched a petition and call for supporters to contact stores to stop their sale.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Instead, it folds into an intricate three-dimensional arrangement, allowing sections that are far apart along the DNA sequence to come into close physical contact.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

All year, food supplies have dwindled as mines and drones made the road increasingly impassable, cutting contact between Oleshky and the outside world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

“Last night, the FBI guys asked if we’d had any contact with Mom. I said I hadn’t, but…that was a lie.”

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that he couldn’t share any comments regarding the announced energy ceasefire as contacts continued, according to Russian state news agency TASS.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

He had recently lost a security clearance after failing government polygraph tests about his foreign contacts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Once TCIP3 brought the proteins together, they formed several additional chemical contacts with one another.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

"More than 90 percent of contacts have completed medical observation," it added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

“Until a lawyer tells me otherwise, nobody talks to Mom. And if she contacts you, tell me immediately.”

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

The woman contacted her 72-year-old father, who came out of the house to remove Gonzalez.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Art of Play said it has contacted Clarkson privately in hopes of clearing up the dispute.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

No one who was contacted knows the sailor’s identity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

He contacted Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, which found that hackers had taken control of the Chinese-made camera.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

He then contacted Professor Rodney Young at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and asked him if the museum would undertake an excavation of the Gelidonya shipwreck.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Aubry noted she last spoke to her brother a day after the alleged September incident and that he did not seem upset, and that the current restraining order prohibits her from contacting her brother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

After months of contacting Meta, Instagram’s parent company, he said he got no meaningful response.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

“We thank the researchers for contacting us and sharing their findings. We narrowed the permissions on Community sign-in tokens and revoked affected tokens and sessions,” the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The EU wants children's accounts to remain private, with "risky settings" disabled by default and unknown users prevented from contacting minors.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

“I’m not sure I did the right thing by contacting your mother,” Gay said.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter




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