intimate
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“Titanic” made audiences understand why historic catastrophes are also intimate tragedies.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Director Gianfranco Rosi builds an intimate city portrait of Naples, filled with people leading bustling modern lives in the environs of an ancient catastrophe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Emmet Gowin’s intimate photographs of life in the Virginia town of his youth find beauty and mystery in every detail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Depending on the extent of his involvement, Stokes, perhaps the most high-profile cricketer in the country, could find himself playing at some intimate venues.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
I was moved by all the people who’d turned out to meet us, but at the same time I was feeling something more intimate and urgent that had nothing to do with where we were.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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“What we saw from Cafeteria was how important comfort was, so we’ve continued to focus on casuals and sweats, as well as sleepwear and intimates with that in mind,” Phillips said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
If we could stop thinking in such narrow definitions of time, Thien intimates, we would be capable of empathizing and understanding that even our most shattering experiences do not separate us from others.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025
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
For my mother that which is personal can only be said to a relative—her only intimates.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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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
He intimated he has "14-15" players in mind to start the game but will use the matches versus New Zealand and Costa Rica to decide his first tournament team.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
He looks like a walking ad for the designer Todd Snyder, and it’s also intimated that he’s bisexual.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Duty manager Claire Taylor-Bevans said staff "all felt intimated" and asked the security team at the site to "keep an eye" on him on 20 October 2024.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
I have already intimated that my condition was much worse, during the first six months of my stay at Mr. Covey’s, than in the last six.
From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass
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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
"It's right that we take our time to wait for the report," she said, intimating that she would not be voting for the amendment.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 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
Ohtani rejected the idea that he and Trout could push each other to greater heights, intimating he was unworthy of exercising such influence over the three-time MVP.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2022
He was intimating that physics at Berkeley might have to continue without Robert Oppenheimer.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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