What reach out does that words like approach and contact doesn't is to convey the idea that the reacher-out is sweetly offering a relationship which it would be unkind to refuse.
In our modern self-centred way it's adding guilt in an attempt to force a transaction.
And who would not resent being so manipulated?
Sunday Rest: reach out. The Old English form of reach was rǣcan.
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