come in/into contact with
idiom
1
: to touch (something)
Do not let your skin come in/into contact with the acid.
2
: to see and begin communicating with (someone)
It was during that time that native people first came in/into contact with the settlers.
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The radioactive water that circulates through the reactor and the clean water that boils in the generators do not come into contact with each other.
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Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 22 Mar. 2025
With the question of whether Musker or Clements or any other principal had ever come in contact with Woodall’s Bucky materials the primary question before the jury, any issue of similarity between the Hawaii setting and Polynesian demigods in Bucky and Moana was moot.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2025
Florida Department of Health officials are working to trace anyone the student may have come into contact with, according to a letter sent to parents of the school by Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo.
—Christopher O'Donnell, Sun Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2025
Ashley Byrne, senior campaigner for PETA, told us the end of rat poison, known as rodenticide, would mean saving the lives of pets that may come in contact with rats.
—Sarah Baniak, ABC News, 12 Feb. 2025
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Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 22 Mar. 2025
With the question of whether Musker or Clements or any other principal had ever come in contact with Woodall’s Bucky materials the primary question before the jury, any issue of similarity between the Hawaii setting and Polynesian demigods in Bucky and Moana was moot.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2025
Florida Department of Health officials are working to trace anyone the student may have come into contact with, according to a letter sent to parents of the school by Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo.
—Christopher O'Donnell, Sun Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2025
Ashley Byrne, senior campaigner for PETA, told us the end of rat poison, known as rodenticide, would mean saving the lives of pets that may come in contact with rats.
—Sarah Baniak, ABC News, 12 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for come in/into contact with
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“Come in/into contact with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/come%20in%2Finto%20contact%20with. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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