intimates

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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

If we could stop thinking in such narrow definitions of time, Thien intimates, we would be capable of empathizing and understanding that even our most shattering experiences do not separate us from others.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 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

Of those matters too jaggedly personal to reveal to intimates, my parents will never speak.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez