intimates
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SolarCity’s eight-member board included Musk and four other intimates: Lyndon and Peter Rive, who are company co-founders and Musk’s cousins; John Fisher, a business partner of Jurvetson’s; and Gracias.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Although called a “Pietà,” it was not a depiction of Christ mourned by his intimates, but rather a “Man of Sorrows”—the dead Savior, half-length, with youthful angels—a timeless image designed for contemplation and meditation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 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
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
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