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intimate

[in-tuh-mit] / ˈɪn tə mɪt /






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In releasing the intimate family images, her siblings described her as "a truly beautiful person inside and out".

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

I’d say that’s a pretty good representation of the gap between the long-shot fantasy of midlife and an intimate understanding of how it actually turns out.

From Salon Jul. 26, 2026

He sends the camera soaring over the heads of the audience into intimate medium shots.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

Emmet Gowin’s intimate photographs of life in the Virginia town of his youth find beauty and mystery in every detail.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

I tried to give Americans the most intimate view possible of Barack and his noble heart.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Same-store sales climbed 23% at Aerie, which sells loungewear and intimates as well as the activewear brand Offline.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 4, 2026

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 study intimates that AI aims to give people what they want—whatever that happens to be.

From Scientific American Oct. 2, 2023

Gone was the desperate, urgent, intense feeling of being at home; rare was the experience of feeling myself individualized by family intimates.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

It is easy to see why Newcastle do not want to lose their talisman after he intimated he wished to join Arsenal.

From BBC Jul. 19, 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 intimated he has "14-15" players in mind to start the game but will use the matches versus New Zealand and Costa Rica to decide his first tournament team.

From BBC Jun. 5, 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

“The headmaster has intimated that he would prefer fewer visits from me,” she said coldly.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

The first paragraph argues that there is no “clause intimating it to be a compact.”

From Salon Dec. 16, 2023

Basket Zaragoza’s general manager, Jose Artigas, wrote in an email to The Times that the 7-foot-3 Mara remained under contract with the team, intimating that he should not be allowed to play elsewhere.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 27, 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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