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intimacy

[in-tuh-muh-see] / ˈɪn tə mə si /


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The part of L.A where the city’s vastness, paradoxically, produces pockets of unusual intimacy.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

Simon says that broken sleep, caused by a partner's snoring, can lead to irritability, arguments, and - if it is decided that sleeping in separate rooms is needed - reduced intimacy.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

The sweetness, the warmth, the intimacy in a seemingly tossed-off phrase—her songs could be 2½-minute novels, they could be love notes left on a kitchen table, they could be secrets whispered into your ear.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

This kind of intimacy — thinking, envisioning, constructing together — is rare when it comes to American intersections with Iran.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

We could never regain the old intimacy with those scenes.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

Her film rejects the idea that one has to give up the close intimacies of friendship once you transition into a coupled-up phase of life.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

If you were familiar with the old museum, the enormous new one—which at times feels inhospitable to the intimacies art requires—may be more than disorienting.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 29, 2025

The lines that had once been carved in laws and norms are obsolete in the eyes of an algorithm designed to lure you into the performative intimacies of strangers’ lives.

From Slate Sep. 10, 2025

“Women’s friendships are created and maintained principally through conversation, where the focus is often on intimacies and the discussion of social and emotional issues,” researchers mused.

From Salon Jan. 16, 2024

He sat down again, facing the front as if he and his girl were alone, talking intimacies.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez




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