intimate
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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
Journalist George Stephanopoulos said it was "so personal and so intimate," despite venue's cavernous size.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Rather, the deeply personal and varied work—textiles, furniture, drawing and prints, videos and installations—adds up to an intimate diary of an artist for whom art and life have always been inseparable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The more intimate gatherings are typically accompanied by Chandresh’s personal pianist, a beautiful young woman who plays continuously throughout the entire evening and never speaks a word to anyone.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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On the earnings call, the intimates executive proved she has mastered the fine art of corporate brandspeak with lines like “underscoring the power of putting ourselves at the center of the cultural conversation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Keck’s horizontal equestrian sculpture, which intimates occupation of the land, became Walker’s vertical, a grotesque standing humanoid, disemboweled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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 Bengali the word for pet name is daknam, meaning, literally, the name by which one is called, by friends, family, and other intimates, at home and in other private, unguarded moments.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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It is easy to see why Newcastle do not want to lose their talisman after he intimated he wished to join Arsenal.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 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
Asked by BBC Sport if he felt Stokes could resign the captaincy and retire from playing, Key said: "He has not intimated that to me."
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 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 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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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
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 was intimating that physics at Berkeley might have to continue without Robert Oppenheimer.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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