intimate
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“Operating with another surgeon is an intimate partnership. You learn their cadence, their strengths and weaknesses, and even glimpse their confidences and fears,” Sidhwa said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
Presumably, as in most intimate relationships that have spanned some years, Mr. Huang would have spoken to her unguardedly—about what the American president said and wants, about what other American tech titans are doing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
A Financial Times report over the weekend described the relationship between Jensen Huang and Alice Huang as intimate, though the two aren’t related.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 8, 2026
“Mouse” examines the extremes of this unusual and intimate intergenerational dynamic with tender thoughtfulness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 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
The truth is that intimates leave the room.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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During discussions aimed at checking the financial conditions of a deal for Guimaraes, it is understood a fee of around £60m was initially intimated with the 28-year-old's representatives.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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
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
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
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 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
"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
Gay referred to the Jets’ run game, intimating New York isn’t looking to throw the ball much while its current quarterback struggles mightily.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 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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