intimate
adjective
associated in close personal relations.
Example Sentences
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Same-store sales climbed 23% at Aerie, which sells loungewear and intimates as well as the activewear brand Offline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 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
For my mother that which is personal can only be said to a relative—her only intimates.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
