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One intimate claimed McCarthy knew “every gambler, hustler, pool shark, and bad check artist” in east Tennessee.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

That would have been perfect for R&B songstress Baby Rose, whose stunning “Yearnalism” album, released earlier this year to rave reviews, is built for intimate audiences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

In the four years since ChatGPT’s breakthrough, generative-text bots have become an unavoidable, discomfiting presence in our most intimate relations—friendships, family ties, romantic prospects.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

The Nigerian worker went on to carry out the man's intimate personal care while a cleaner held his arms down.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

I tried to give Americans the most intimate view possible of Barack and his noble heart.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Skillfully collating the accounts of Auden’s intimates, he offers details about the poet’s sexuality, psyche, cratering appearance and deteriorating habits that are painful to contemplate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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

The study intimates that AI aims to give people what they want—whatever that happens to be.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 2, 2023

In Bengali the word for pet name is daknam, meaning, literally, the name by which one is called, by friends, family, and other intimates, at home and in other private, unguarded moments.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

"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

Asked by BBC Sport if he felt Stokes could resign the captaincy and retire from playing, Key said: "He has not intimated that to me."

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 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

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

"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

Gay referred to the Jets’ run game, intimating New York isn’t looking to throw the ball much while its current quarterback struggles mightily.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 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