intimate
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One in five students in the study said they used AI for emotionally intimate companionship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Holland, 30, and Zendaya, 30, said “I do” during an intimate wedding celebration at the Beaverbrook Hotel in Surrey, just outside London, on Aug. 4.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
It's a small, intimate space, with fluted vaults and brick-lined walls that echo the Art Deco architecture of the former power station.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Gretta relates to her songs as though she were the next Joni Mitchell, but the new material she’s composing on the fly with her new friends doesn’t seem particularly intimate or revealing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
I had nowhere seen such faces as theirs: and yet, as I gazed on them, I seemed intimate with every lineament.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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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
“What we saw from Cafeteria was how important comfort was, so we’ve continued to focus on casuals and sweats, as well as sleepwear and intimates with that in mind,” Phillips said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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
But surviving testimony intimates that it was well on its way.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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
The local police union meanwhile intimated that Smith’s Dec. 8 resignation was timed to duck further questioning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
Diana intimated that this would be a different parting from any they had ever yet known.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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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
The first paragraph argues that there is no “clause intimating it to be a compact.”
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2023
"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 was intimating that physics at Berkeley might have to continue without Robert Oppenheimer.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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