intimate
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I suspect they are terrible for privacy, and I dread what the future brings with some big brother company knowing all my intimate health info but I am still grateful for how much they help.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
At over two hours, it’s a movie that feels sprawling and intimate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
"It's a very intimate relationship, so to these clients, the loss of having their Haiti TPS-holding caregivers truly is devastating."
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Something intimate died so that something enormous could take its place, and I will not pretend the trade was even.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Kane had been on intimate terms with death before.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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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
In some sense that went deeper than friendship, they were intimates; somewhere or other, although the actual words might never be spoken, there was a place where they could meet and talk.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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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
The local police union meanwhile intimated that Smith’s Dec. 8 resignation was timed to duck further questioning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
Duty manager Claire Taylor-Bevans said staff "all felt intimated" and asked the security team at the site to "keep an eye" on him on 20 October 2024.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
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
I have already intimated that my condition was much worse, during the first six months of my stay at Mr. Covey’s, than in the last six.
From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass
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The first paragraph argues that there is no “clause intimating it to be a compact.”
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2023
"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
Ohtani rejected the idea that he and Trout could push each other to greater heights, intimating he was unworthy of exercising such influence over the three-time MVP.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2022
He was intimating that physics at Berkeley might have to continue without Robert Oppenheimer.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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