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
This deeply tender and generous memoir pulls back from the intimacy of David’s bungalow to take in all humanity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Nitish Pahwa: We’re in this moment where people aren’t just engaging in emotional intimacy with chatbots, but doing so knowing that it’s fake, and that the LLM is gameable.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
Telluride’s intimacy is part of its peculiar power.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Their clotheslines are strung with underpants, nighties, socks, a display of soiled intimacy, which they have washed and rinsed, plunging their hands into the gray curdled water.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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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
It takes some getting used to, but it puts you in an outward-facing mood, attuned to sounds and intimacies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2024
Each has consequences on the longer-term lifespan of whatever intimacies their characters can scrape out for themselves.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024
He sat down again, facing the front as if he and his girl were alone, talking intimacies.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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Power Suffix: -acy
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