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intimacy

[in-tuh-muh-see] / ˈɪn tə mə si /


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Some of that same intimacy returned when he played a sublime encore, a movement from Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 5, with string players from the orchestra.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Nitish Pahwa: We’re in this moment where people aren’t just engaging in emotional intimacy with chatbots, but doing so knowing that it’s fake, and that the LLM is gameable.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

I liked the intimacy and the rawness of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Simon says that broken sleep, caused by a partner's snoring, can lead to irritability, arguments, and - if it is decided that sleeping in separate rooms is needed - reduced intimacy.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

He was a master of the sudden change of register—a joke, or a phrase of unexpected intimacy.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

If you were familiar with the old museum, the enormous new one—which at times feels inhospitable to the intimacies art requires—may be more than disorienting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

The lines that had once been carved in laws and norms are obsolete in the eyes of an algorithm designed to lure you into the performative intimacies of strangers’ lives.

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2025

It takes some getting used to, but it puts you in an outward-facing mood, attuned to sounds and intimacies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2024

In a mega two-hour, dual album, released in two parts as "The Tortured Poets Department" and "The Anthology," Swift pens 31 different heartbreaks, triumphs and intimacies — tortured poems if you will.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024

They said they loved each other, used “darling” and “dearest,” and knew their future was together, but they held back from wilder intimacies.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan


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