IEThe Irish Times
Stop ‘reaching out’ in case you fall
Perhaps the term was a replacement for the equally irritating ‘touching base’
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- #1282
- First seen
- 21 Aug 2026, 05:04 UTC
- Last checked
- 21 Aug 2026, 20:50 UTC
- Version history
- 1 version
- Current fingerprint
0813e8046ff3...5ac059
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Publisher layer
Recorded article metadata
- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 21 Aug 2026, 05:00 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Not supplied
- Section
- Not supplied
Source-supplied excerpt
Perhaps the term was a replacement for the equally irritating ‘touching base’
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Stop ‘reaching out’ in case you fall
Perhaps the term was a replacement for the equally irritating ‘touching base’
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0813e8046ff3...5ac059- Capture SHA-256
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Interpretation layer
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Publisher categories are copied from source metadata. Machine signals report observable wording or format and do not determine truth, intent, ethics, or wrongdoing.
- machine content-type Reported news observable-rules-v1 / 70% rule confidence
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Evidence layer
Capture provenance
- Capture ID
- #723
- Observed
- 21 Aug 2026, 05:04 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
- Raw payload
- 601,044 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt