How to Use lose touch in a Sentence
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In many ways, leaders who lose touch suffer from the same flaw as Icarus.
— Ira Bedzow, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021 -
Stumbling out of bed too early is just one of the ways entrepreneurs lose touch with their bodies.
— Sherry Walling, Fortune Well, 15 Aug. 2023 -
If that’s true, Americans will lose trust in yet another institution, and the court will lose touch with the will of the people.
— Mary Ziegler, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022 -
He’s seen friends from the early days get unfathomably rich and lose touch with reality.
— New York Times, 25 Apr. 2021 -
That tactic makes sense for a film about an actress who lands a role in a cursed production and begins to lose touch with reality.
— Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 3 June 2022 -
Many of those who returned to employment appear to have been folks who were laid off at the start of the pandemic but didn’t completely lose touch with their employers.
— John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2021 -
It’s been around for a long time to refer to situations when leaders and companies lose touch with employees.
— Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023 -
Please continue to call attention to Ukraine so that American society and others around the world do not lose touch with the war that rages on a continent away.
— Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2022 -
Other team members become disillusioned, lose touch with the project and disengage as well.
— Bilal Aijazi, Forbes, 3 June 2022 -
Don't lose touch with your team; communicaiton is essential.
— Richard Lindhorn, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022 -
Trying to manage and juggle that is my own unique challenge in my life — and to not lose touch with what’s really important, which is being a good dad, having a good family.
— Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 15 July 2022 -
Companies start to lose touch with reality when its people stop asking why.
— Cassandra Frangos, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023 -
In Smyth’s mind, Shanley built such a personal and relatable story that audiences never lose touch with the characters.
— David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024 -
In studying flight attendents on the job, Hochschild saw how these workers, required to smile and speak sweetly to irate, out-of-control customers, would lose touch with their experience of emotion and identity.
— Tara McMullin, Quartz, 28 Nov. 2022 -
After an awe-inspiring experience in outer space, an astronaut returns to Earth and starts to lose touch with reality in a world that now seems too small.
— Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021 -
But as more transactions happen digitally, kids can lose touch with real-time discussions on the value of money and how to think about purchases.
— CBS News, 13 Oct. 2020 -
Taking Yoruba as an example there are over one million Yoruba people outside of Nigeria, many of whom do not want to lose touch with their heritage so would pay for lessons for themselves or their children.
— Tommy Williams, Forbes, 12 May 2021 -
The article makes the case that the extended dearth of in-person interactions has caused many of us to lose touch with those on the periphery of our lives: gym buddies, bartenders who know our name, familiar faces from the office cafeteria.
— Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 25 Aug. 2022 -
People clash; people lose touch; fights break out over trivial matters in no way related to sexuality.
— Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 19 Oct. 2022 -
To some extent that’s because audiences grow up and influencers either struggle to stay relevant with younger audiences or lose touch with their original viewers.
— Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2023 -
Sometimes depression can become so severe that people lose touch with reality.
— Damon Tweedy, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2017 -
Couche-Tard is organized into 26 highly decentralized operating units, so local chains don’t lose touch with their customers.
— Phil Wahba, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2020 -
One of the biggest mistakes leaders make when their company experiences some level of success is that they get lost in business management responsibilities, and lose touch with customers.
— Expert Panel®, Forbes, 1 June 2021 -
That somatic return is a common theme in trauma psychology, which suggests that lasting stressors will lead people to intellectualize and lose touch with physicality.
— Courtney Tenz, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
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