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contacting

contacting \contacting\ n. the act of touching physically.

Syn: contact.

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contacting

vb. (present participle of contact English)

Usage examples of "contacting".

How'n'ell can you do that without contacting natives whom they insist cannot be here in the first place?

Nrrna spoke into a radio unit which was hooked to her belt, contacting the Health Center's operator.

He was as unhappy about contacting the Ryxi as Varian but for a less altruistic motive.

Dimenon had had a good reason for contacting the cruiser - not only a video of twenty-three small Thek, but an interaction between them and the creature that had attacked Kai.

Who's been contacting whom, and whose money paid for that heavyworlder seedship?

He knew her childhood very well now—accessing the data available publicly and then doing the unthinkable, at least for anyone in the BB program: contacting Doctor Kennet and Doctor Anna and pumping them for information.

He paused to let that sink in before continuing: "And I'm contacting you in regard to a matter that has been brought to the attention of Station Security and through them to my bureau.

He may have absolved them of an impulsive act in contacting the Mrdinis, but she was certain that some reckoning was due.

Jeff Raven prompted his daughter when she faltered, although what she was finding hard to say was the reason for her contacting her parents.

Even as Jeff had been receiving information from the Genessee, he had Gollee Gren contacting the Mrdini High Council representative stationed on Earth.

I shall use the word expunge so that you will know it is I contacting you and you will open your mind to me.

He carried the only concession to modem technology, a comm unit, for contacting Adak in Kilcoole and SpaceBase.

He read accounts of persons who never left their home place, contacting others only by electronics, living as teremites.

He extended his left arm slowly, moved it up and down, without contacting more than the frame of the bed.

I was not so far gone that I failed to realize I might be contacting the one responsible for my condition.