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Verb: touch on
  1. Refer to or discuss briefly
    "The speaker touched on several important topics"; "The report touched on the main issues without going into detail"
     
  2. Be relevant to
    "His speech touched on several important issues";
    - refer, pertain, relate, concern, bear on, touch, have to do with
     
  3. Come close to or reach (a level or condition)
    "Temperatures touched on freezing"

Derived forms: touched on, touching on, touches on

Type of: advert [rare], bring up, cite, mention, name, refer