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intimate

[in-tuh-mit] / ˈɪn tə mɪt /






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Holmes, who was convicted of defrauding investors in her once-highflying Silicon Valley blood-testing startup Theranos, granted Fielder intimate access to her life in the month leading up to her reporting to prison in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

But with them come an intimate town setting.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

The account shared posts discussing Webster's arrest, as well as intimate details of his personal life.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Something intimate died so that something enormous could take its place, and I will not pretend the trade was even.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

The more intimate gatherings are typically accompanied by Chandresh’s personal pianist, a beautiful young woman who plays continuously throughout the entire evening and never speaks a word to anyone.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

They were intimates in childhood and the present, but “those were only two forgivable Birdies,” she writes.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 26, 2026

Although called a “Pietà,” it was not a depiction of Christ mourned by his intimates, but rather a “Man of Sorrows”—the dead Savior, half-length, with youthful angels—a timeless image designed for contemplation and meditation.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

These are intentionally not the Kennedy family’s stories or takes from their intimates, but the people who had enough of a professional closeness to be at hand when the assassination happened.

From Salon Nov. 5, 2023

“There is something in a landscape like that which humbles you and intimates to you that there’s something very big out there, and this thing has an awful lot of power,” says Lindahl.

From National Geographic Oct. 13, 2023

Coming home from grammar school with new friends, I would hear it, its reminder: My new intimates were strangers to her.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

Newcastle do not want to lose another big name in Bruno Guimaraes, but the captain's future is uncertain after he intimated he wished to join Arsenal.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

No matter what was intimated in back-channel talks, the unwillingness of Iran’s regime to put substantive nuclear commitments in the memorandum of understanding is a warning.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

The local police union meanwhile intimated that Smith’s Dec. 8 resignation was timed to duck further questioning.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 17, 2025

The idea of a driver-cooling system was intimated after the 2023 Qatar Grand Prix, when heat and humidity left several drivers on the brink of collapse.

From BBC Oct. 2, 2025

Diana intimated that this would be a different parting from any they had ever yet known.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

The message is disturbing, intimating that the two men were very close, had a lot in common and shared “a wonderful secret” about how “enigmas never age.”

From Salon Sep. 9, 2025

However, Ten Hag refused to accept the negative view of the result, while intimating nobody should expect him to produce magical outcomes.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2024

Basket Zaragoza’s general manager, Jose Artigas, wrote in an email to The Times that the 7-foot-3 Mara remained under contract with the team, intimating that he should not be allowed to play elsewhere.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 27, 2023

Asked by other players what she was doing, she shouted, “Look at me, look at me,” intimating she couldn’t do much about it.

From Washington Times Aug. 21, 2023

He was intimating that physics at Berkeley might have to continue without Robert Oppenheimer.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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