intimate
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The conversation includes some light teasing about each other’s attachment styles — the intimate banter of close friends.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
This is not sufficient, in the view of the Justice Department, to intimate that there’s racism afoot.
From Slate • May 4, 2026
He says this all points to an intimate drawing of Boleyn, most likely captured during a pregnancy.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
A documentary on TCM draws on the Japanese director’s diaries to offer an intimate portrait of a modest yet artistically monumental filmmaker.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Somehow I should have expected that a room furnished as this was in such exquisite taste, for all the exaggeration of the flowers, would be a place of decoration only, languorous and intimate.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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