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intimacy

[in-tuh-muh-see] / ˈɪn tə mə si /


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They may subconsciously view intimacy as a threat to their autonomy and withdraw when relationships become too emotionally close.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

Heughan said the introduction of intimacy co-ordinators in later series was a "great protection" for actors.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

What lingers is the intimacy of the work—the steady service of caring for frightened people during the worst days of their lives.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

For platforms, the challenge is verifying identities, policing boundaries, and making sure a market built around emotional intimacy doesn’t become a regulatory liability.

From Barron's Jun. 19, 2026

But our intimacy had been public, and so our slow failure was going to be public, too.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

His mind slalomed elegantly through the intimacies of his body, his marriages and his neighborhood, but never through ideology.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 10, 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

In a mega two-hour, dual album, released in two parts as "The Tortured Poets Department" and "The Anthology," Swift pens 31 different heartbreaks, triumphs and intimacies — tortured poems if you will.

From Salon Apr. 19, 2024

They hold decades inside them, slowly unpeel into intimacies between characters.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2023

They said they loved each other, used “darling” and “dearest,” and knew their future was together, but they held back from wilder intimacies.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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