intimate
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Perhaps the band’s greatest strength is being able to project an intimate familiarity with the present, while drawing freely from the ’60s and ’70s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
New York, Venice, Maine: For people like the writer and his friends, the world became both more expansive and more intimate through the personal and artistic lines—poetic and painterly—that brought them together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
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
The sales pitch has become harder to escape precisely as it has become more intimate.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Her manner was fawning again, intimate and unpleasant.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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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
If we could stop thinking in such narrow definitions of time, Thien intimates, we would be capable of empathizing and understanding that even our most shattering experiences do not separate us from others.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025
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
“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
Gone was the desperate, urgent, intense feeling of being at home; rare was the experience of feeling myself individualized by family intimates.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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No matter what was intimated in back-channel talks, the unwillingness of Iran’s regime to put substantive nuclear commitments in the memorandum of understanding is a warning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Asked by BBC Sport if he felt Stokes could resign the captaincy and retire from playing, Key said: "He has not intimated that to me."
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 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
“He actually intimated that he might not be able to do it this year,” Winston says of the comedian and former “Daily Show” host.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
Diana intimated that this would be a different parting from any they had ever yet known.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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The message is disturbing, intimating that the two men were very close, had a lot in common and shared “a wonderful secret” about how “enigmas never age.”
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2025
The chair indicates “throne,” the austere clock adds a symbolic note of sober timeliness, as well as intimating life’s inevitable transience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024
"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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