intimate
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Almost immediately, though, the dispute landed somewhere more intimate: the map in everyone’s pocket.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
The BBC's review highlighted quieter songs like Imperfect For You, describing them as "delicate and gorgeous and strangely intimate in a room of 20,000 people".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Suno, according to the suit, described the song as “contemporary Americana singer-songwriter with fingerpicked acoustic guitar” and “verse leans intimate and narrative.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
In intimate letters, Harp has explained her devotion to the 80-year-old president.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
However, like the social instincts of chimps, those of humans were adapted only for small intimate groups.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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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
What feelings so unruly they dare not reveal to other intimates?
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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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
He intimated he has "14-15" players in mind to start the game but will use the matches versus New Zealand and Costa Rica to decide his first tournament team.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 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
“The headmaster has intimated that he would prefer fewer visits from me,” she said coldly.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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Cronin said he anticipated using multiple starting lineups , intimating that they would be based on matchups.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024
"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
He played intense, intimating characters so often, but I think the trick is finding the levity inside the intensity.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 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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