closeness
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"What matters most is being with the victims' relatives, that they feel the closeness, because words at a time like this are pointless, but a hug helps," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
“I thank you for your spiritual closeness and entrust myself to your prayers,” he said at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
He concluded his Angelus prayer by thanking everyone for their "spiritual closeness" and said he entrusted himself to their prayers.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
One can’t possibly grasp the closeness two people share until they’ve experienced firsthand the joy and indescribable pain that come with the kind of enmeshment written in fate’s codex.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Uptight, frightened adversaries only a few hours before, now there was almost a mystical closeness and sense of companionship between them.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
Vocabulary lists containing closeness
"The Tempest," Vocabulary from Acts 1 and 2
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