closeness
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Despite his closeness to the Bolsonaros, Trump has also shown an uncanny fondness for Lula, saying that despite turbulent trade relations, he and the veteran leftist, both 80, have "excellent chemistry."
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
“I thank you for your spiritual closeness and entrust myself to your prayers,” he said at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
He concluded his Angelus prayer by thanking everyone for their "spiritual closeness" and said he entrusted himself to their prayers.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
One can’t possibly grasp the closeness two people share until they’ve experienced firsthand the joy and indescribable pain that come with the kind of enmeshment written in fate’s codex.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
To add to his misery, the loss of Ariana had led, not to a renewed closeness between Albus and Aberforth, but to an estrangement.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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"The Tempest," Vocabulary from Acts 1 and 2
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