intimacy
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This kind of intimacy — thinking, envisioning, constructing together — is rare when it comes to American intersections with Iran.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Put simply: It’s more difficult to maintain the true intimacy than it’s ever been.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
The British former stunt coordinator has been at the forefront of intimacy coordinators becoming an industry norm for more than a decade now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Heughan said the series, which ended this year after eight seasons, did not initially have intimacy co-ordinators and "we were very much left to our own devices".
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
He knew he would not meet many of them again, at least not in a way that allowed for the kind of intimacy that they had shared in the past days.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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Mr. Jensen, himself a native of western Nebraska, writes insightfully about the intimacies, frustrations and rivalries of such a place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
The lines that had once been carved in laws and norms are obsolete in the eyes of an algorithm designed to lure you into the performative intimacies of strangers’ lives.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2025
What is it like when you travel with someone and you fart in front of them for the first time, or they see you brushing your teeth and all of these intimacies?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024
In a mega two-hour, dual album, released in two parts as "The Tortured Poets Department" and "The Anthology," Swift pens 31 different heartbreaks, triumphs and intimacies — tortured poems if you will.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024
They said they loved each other, used “darling” and “dearest,” and knew their future was together, but they held back from wilder intimacies.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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Power Suffix: -acy
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