intimacy

Simon says that broken sleep, caused by a partner's snoring, can lead to irritability, arguments, and - if it is decided that sleeping in separate rooms is needed - reduced intimacy.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Such moments of everyday intimacy, sisterhood and friendship are absent from mainstream representations of East L.A., public housing projects and brown neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The sweetness, the warmth, the intimacy in a seemingly tossed-off phrase—her songs could be 2½-minute novels, they could be love notes left on a kitchen table, they could be secrets whispered into your ear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Put simply: It’s more difficult to maintain the true intimacy than it’s ever been.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

But affection from millions and intimacy from that one special person are completely different beasts.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

His mind slalomed elegantly through the intimacies of his body, his marriages and his neighborhood, but never through ideology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 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

“Women’s friendships are created and maintained principally through conversation, where the focus is often on intimacies and the discussion of social and emotional issues,” researchers mused.

From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2024

They hold decades inside them, slowly unpeel into intimacies between characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

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