intimacy
Example Sentences
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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
It was a testament to an intimacy fueled by shared experience, the kind stoked both by live music and watercooler television at its best.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2026
He did etchings, lithographs, even stained glass windows - equally at home working with the grandeur of opera design and the intimacy of pen and ink.
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026
His extensive reporting for “Checkmate,” including the cooperation of its principals, gives the book a page-turning intimacy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
“I do not know what your opinion may be, Mrs. Weston,” said Mr. Knightley, “of this great intimacy between Emma and Harriet Smith, but I think it a bad thing.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
Vocabulary lists containing intimacy
Power Suffix: -acy
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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"Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan
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