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intimate

[in-tuh-mit] / ˈɪn tə mɪt /






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For a singer who sang all across the world, it will be an intimate farewell in the place she called home.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

An ode to the ecstasy of Scrabble: Do you love hearing someone talk about something they’re really passionate about and know very well, in great intimate detail?

From Slate Aug. 14, 2026

Inside Nardis Jazz Club, a dimly lit venue with an intimate feel in the shadow of Istanbul's Galata Tower, a jazz trio is rehearsing ahead of an evening show with a singer.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

An investigation commissioned by the University of Michigan following the firing of football coach Sherrone Moore highlighted problems inside the athletic department that went far beyond his intimate relationship with a staff member.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

For newborns and very young children, speaking a rhyme and wiggling toes connects sound to a pleasurable and intimate act, as well as introducing the idea of rhythm and phrasing to newborns and young children.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Same-store sales climbed 23% at Aerie, which sells loungewear and intimates as well as the activewear brand Offline.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 4, 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

Having failed to revive the great collaboration of the revolutionary era, Adams and Jefferson went their separate ways with different intimates.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

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

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 idea of a driver-cooling system was intimated after the 2023 Qatar Grand Prix, when heat and humidity left several drivers on the brink of collapse.

From BBC Oct. 2, 2025

Diana intimated that this would be a different parting from any they had ever yet known.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

However, Ten Hag refused to accept the negative view of the result, while intimating nobody should expect him to produce magical outcomes.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2024

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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