intimacy
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I’ve found the heated discussions over income gaps and housing budgets to be just as juicy as the fights over intimacy as they head into their Netflix-sponsored nuptials.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
We want the intimacy of a home without necessarily inheriting all the obligations of maintaining one.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
The painting’s newfound eye-level placement increases intimacy, but intimacy isn’t always synonymous with access.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
"If you're cancelling plans with your significant other or directing your intimacy towards a fictional character, then that is a little odd."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
But near her in rehearsals for a school play, with all the waiting around that implied, all the backstage intimacy, all the intense, fraught, giddy, emotional abandon brought on by assuming identities not your own.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Her film rejects the idea that one has to give up the close intimacies of friendship once you transition into a coupled-up phase of life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
If you were familiar with the old museum, the enormous new one—which at times feels inhospitable to the intimacies art requires—may be more than disorienting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
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
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
He wanted to tell her something about himself, too, wanted to exchange small kernels of intimacies with her.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Power Suffix: -acy
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