Alongside and Touching

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Alongside adverb - Side by side.

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Touching and alongside are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Touching" instead an adjective "Alongside".

Touching adjective - Having a border in common.

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Alongside and touching are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alongside" instead an adjective "Touching".

Nearby Words: touch, touched, touchy, toucher, touchable

His appearance in her ideal universe alongside obvious "first love" Kamina and their touching encounter before Kittan's suicide run hint at it, but never really bring closure to the idea.

Source: Second Love
You'd be forgiven for thinking this trope was named for Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, where fairies would occasionally pop up on the World Map alongside normal Wandering Monsters, and touching one sent Link to a "battle" screen with nothing but a healing fairy hovering in midair.

Source: Fairy Battle

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