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Even worse than not wanting to be intimate with me, Cassandra didn’t want to go out to dinner with me either, because of my carb-watching.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

The meeting will be intimate, according to a senior German official and a U.S. official.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2023

“We’re deeply committed to the idea that not everything can be a mega-museum or mega-gallery. There have to be intimate dialogues and exchanges that exist in that space between.”

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2022

It doesn’t have to be a big party, it can be intimate, but if it’s an L.A .party it’s really rooted in the community.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2022

They never are tempted to believe that public life can also be intimate.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez




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