intimacy
Example Sentences
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For platforms, the challenge is verifying identities, policing boundaries, and making sure a market built around emotional intimacy doesn’t become a regulatory liability.
From Barron's • Jun. 19, 2026
It was a testament to an intimacy fueled by shared experience, the kind stoked both by live music and watercooler television at its best.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2026
What inflicts the damage is not so much plausibility in the abstract as repetition inside intimacy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026
"Those years when you're sort of experimenting with how you show up in person with another person, how you flirt, how you think about intimacy, that was interrupted for many people," she says.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
It was as if, between them, an old intimacy had quite suddenly lapsed.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing intimacy
Power Suffix: -acy
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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"Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan
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