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
But all inevitably carry their own biases, and none have the intimate understanding, sustained commitment or enduring responsibility that parents have for their children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Yes, the scene is intimate, but the nature of the show requires it to also be horrifying and comedic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
This was the turning point, they say, where Sapiens cast off its intimate symbiosis with nature and sprinted towards greed and alienation.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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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
Of those matters too jaggedly personal to reveal to intimates, my parents will never speak.
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
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
Diana intimated that this would be a different parting from any they had ever yet known.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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However, Ten Hag refused to accept the negative view of the result, while intimating nobody should expect him to produce magical outcomes.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2024
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
A recent letter intimating blame to Teamsters Local 174 members for the ongoing concrete strike is unfounded.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 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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