intimates

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They were intimates in childhood and the present, but “those were only two forgivable Birdies,” she writes.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

“What we saw from Cafeteria was how important comfort was, so we’ve continued to focus on casuals and sweats, as well as sleepwear and intimates with that in mind,” Phillips said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 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