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intimate

[in-tuh-mit] / ˈɪn tə mɪt /






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Such intimate details will be carefully edited out of the current disclosures too.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

One in five American adults has had an intimate encounter with AI, according to an MIT study, increasing the risk that some users believe AI is conscious and advocating for rights or moral status.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Lean himself wrote to Alec Guinness, then being courted for a part, that the new movie would be “much more intimate and private than the last two films,” “Lawrence” and “Zhivago.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

What was once a "more intimate" celebration has become "a mass event," said Roberto Montalvo, an academic at the Iberoamerican University.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

The glaziers had more intimate contact with the portrait than anyone else in France.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

“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

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

“I look happy, but only in old photos,” Benito intimates in Spanish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 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

What feelings so unruly they dare not reveal to other intimates?

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

"I didn't want her to feel intimated and, within a few minutes, she popped up onto the window ledge on her side so she could get closer to us."

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

They also expressed doubt that the Venezuelan oil producer, led by businessman Alejandro Betancourt, could quickly scale up production to the heights the Trump administration has intimated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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

When the cheering had died down, Napoleon, who had remained on his feet, intimated that he too had a few words to say.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

Cronin said he anticipated using multiple starting lineups , intimating that they would be based on matchups.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024

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

The first paragraph argues that there is no “clause intimating it to be a compact.”

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 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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