intimate
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Having a bird swoop down to snatch food from your hand is one of the most intimate interactions we can have with wildlife.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
They were pushing the antithesis of the intimate learning style my literary program had once promoted.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Harbour: The more intimate something becomes, the less people want to ask you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
It is betting that shorter distances will be worth a more intimate guest experience with wildlife.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
While we walk through my neighborhood, he keeps his head bent toward mine as though we’re having an intimate conversation, but what he's really doing is explaining the Schouwburg.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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The company also is contending with headwinds related to its acquisition of online intimates brand Adore Me in 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
These are intentionally not the Kennedy family’s stories or takes from their intimates, but the people who had enough of a professional closeness to be at hand when the assassination happened.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2023
“I look happy, but only in old photos,” Benito intimates in Spanish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
“There is something in a landscape like that which humbles you and intimates to you that there’s something very big out there, and this thing has an awful lot of power,” says Lindahl.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 13, 2023
In some sense that went deeper than friendship, they were intimates; somewhere or other, although the actual words might never be spoken, there was a place where they could meet and talk.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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During discussions aimed at checking the financial conditions of a deal for Guimaraes, it is understood a fee of around £60m was initially intimated with the 28-year-old's representatives.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
He looks like a walking ad for the designer Todd Snyder, and it’s also intimated that he’s bisexual.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
The local police union meanwhile intimated that Smith’s Dec. 8 resignation was timed to duck further questioning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
Duty manager Claire Taylor-Bevans said staff "all felt intimated" and asked the security team at the site to "keep an eye" on him on 20 October 2024.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
“The headmaster has intimated that he would prefer fewer visits from me,” she said coldly.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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Cronin said he anticipated using multiple starting lineups , intimating that they would be based on matchups.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024
The first paragraph argues that there is no “clause intimating it to be a compact.”
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2023
"It's right that we take our time to wait for the report," she said, intimating that she would not be voting for the amendment.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2023
Asked by other players what she was doing, she shouted, “Look at me, look at me,” intimating she couldn’t do much about it.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
He was intimating that physics at Berkeley might have to continue without Robert Oppenheimer.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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