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  • noun Plural form of touchstone.

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Examples

  • His touchstones were the Roman Coliseum and the Taj Mahal.

    Sugar Skull Denise Hamilton 2003

  • His touchstones were the Roman Coliseum and the Taj Mahal.

    Sugar Skull Denise Hamilton 2003

  • Whether it is in our own lives or the life of a communal effort like the early space program, it is important to preserve "touchstones".

    Save Historic Mercury Mission Control Center - NASA Watch 2009

  • You start to not have those kind of touchstones we all need.

    CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2003 2003

  • Technological hurdles, privacy concerns and a culture of secrecy have kept the president from making transparency one of the "touchstones" of his tenure.

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • Blumenauer, 61, finds himself fighting to retain one of the touchstones for liberals this year, a public insurance option in the health care overhaul, and is watching his hopes of curbingglobal warminggrow cold in the Senate.

    Oregon 2010

  • Blumenauer, 61, finds himself fighting to retain one of the touchstones for liberals this year, a public insurance option in the health care overhaul, and is watching his hopes of curbingglobal warminggrow cold in the Senate.

    The Rev. Chuck Currie: 2009

  • His work, he says, is more akin to novel writing than fine art, though on this evidence Borges or Kafka, rather than Agatha Christie, are his touchstones.

    Ryan Gander: Locked Room Scenario – review 2011

  • In Episode 4 they spend it together in pursuit of the same goal and we have fun with that, but they are in a way each other's touchstones.

    Switched at Birth Creator Says Bay and Emmett Have Conflict Ahead; Plus: Can Daphne Move On? 2012

  • Blumenauer, 61, finds himself fighting to retain one of the touchstones for liberals this year, a public insurance option in the health care overhaul, and is watching his hopes of curbingglobal warminggrow cold in the Senate.

    President Barack Obama 2010

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