out of contact

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After bouncing Rory Hutchinson earlier in the game, Carre stretched and produced a sumptuous soft-hand sky-hook offload out of contact to set Nick Tomkins running.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

The men had been been out of contact since Friday.

From Barron's • Nov. 4, 2025

Launched last week, Intuitive Machines’ lander fired its engine on the back side of the moon while out of contact with Earth.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2024

“It’s a 46-year-old spacecraft — we don’t like being out of contact with it,” the spokeswoman said.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2023

Thereafter, Tasmania’s population of 4,000 hunter-gatherers remained out of contact with all other humans on Earth, living in an isolation otherwise known only from science fiction novels.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond