establish contact
Frequency: 6.816.0 per million words
To successfully start communication, often in a formal or difficult situation.
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- We first established contact with the organization in 2002.
- The diplomat's main goal was to establish contact with the new government.
- Rescue teams are working tirelessly to establish contact with the trapped miners.
- After many failed attempts, NASA finally established contact with the Mars rover.
- It was difficult to establish contact with anyone in authority after the storm.
- The spy's mission was to secretly establish contact with an informant inside the embassy.
- Once radio contact was established, they could coordinate the rescue effort.
- Our sales team will try to establish contact with potential clients next week.
- Anthropologists hope to establish contact with the uncontacted tribe without causing harm.
- He has been unable to establish contact with his family since the conflict began.