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intimate

[in-tuh-mit] / ˈɪn tə mɪt /






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Shakespeare gives us an intimate portrait of a man talking himself into doing wrong, over and over, with the audience inside his head the whole way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

If audiences already know the intimate details of how a very real public leak, whistle-blow, or scandal came together, what’s left for them to learn by fictionalizing it all?

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Two sources who said they had intimate knowledge of the operation told the BBC that US authorities stopped digging before the search had been completed, possibly because of security concerns.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Chris Rock’s compelling tragicomedy “Misty Green” opens with a montage of Los Angeles that’s as intimate as an X-ray of a tumor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

There are stories within each of these stories, but this book is also a very personal story—an intimate history.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Skillfully collating the accounts of Auden’s intimates, he offers details about the poet’s sexuality, psyche, cratering appearance and deteriorating habits that are painful to contemplate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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

It’s like two people still standing at a bus terminal after all the passengers have been met, the instant shared feeling almost enough to make them intimates.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

They also expressed doubt that the Venezuelan oil producer, led by businessman Alejandro Betancourt, could quickly scale up production to the heights the Trump administration has intimated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Newcastle do not want to lose another big name in Bruno Guimaraes, but the captain's future is uncertain after he intimated he wished to join Arsenal.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 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

The “Jennifer’s Body” actor settled the matter on this week’s episode of Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast — confirming that the engagement is off but intimating there might still be something between them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

"It's right that we take our time to wait for the report," she said, intimating that she would not be voting for the amendment.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 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 played intense, intimating characters so often, but I think the trick is finding the levity inside the intensity.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 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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