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intimately

[in-tuh-mit-lee] / ˈɪn tə mɪt li /


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“That sentiment is applicable only to do-it-yourself investors who are intimately knowledgeable about how crypto functions,” Edelman says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

This is, again, something queer people know intimately.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

And Mario Thompson, an elementary school principal who has been intimately involved in all his daughters’ careers, is having to negotiate all this on the fly.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026

Von Mierers, intimately engaged with both the Manhattan club scene and Wall Street, was fated to run across Mr. Richards.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Some people personalize events excessively, resisting an external perspective, and since numbers and an impersonal view of the world are intimately related, this resistance contributes to an almost willful innumeracy.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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