intimacy
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"If you're cancelling plans with your significant other or directing your intimacy towards a fictional character, then that is a little odd."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Reclaim human intimacy: As A.I. makes inroads into all aspects of society, are chatbots damaging our capacity to maintain relationships with real people?
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026
“The Age of Cures” lacks some of the vivid intimacy of Mr. Werth’s earlier work, but occasionally a moment breaks through.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Aerial reporters possess a peculiar intimacy with listeners, their voices and visuals filling cars and houses with their personalities as well as useful, even startling, real-time information.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
It is the one instance when the commingling of their convictions and the very intimacy of their partnership led him astray.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Mr. Jensen, himself a native of western Nebraska, writes insightfully about the intimacies, frustrations and rivalries of such a place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
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
Toossi wants us to experience the casual intimacies of these women.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2025
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
He wanted to tell her something about himself, too, wanted to exchange small kernels of intimacies with her.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Power Suffix: -acy
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