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up close and personal

British

adverb

intimately

he got to know the prime minister up close and personal

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adjective

intimate

up-close-and-personal interaction

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up close and personal

He also saw the industry underbelly up close and personal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Kirkwood admitted getting up close and personal with someone she had never met did not come naturally.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

Miller’s view is up close and personal, providing the reader with private antidotes while examining her poems and correlating them to geopolitical issues.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025

But this time, it’s being presented off-Broadway in a radically reconceived version, dubbed “Masquerade,” that lets audiences get up close and personal with the phantom himself.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2025

Let her see me up close and personal and hear me loud and clear.

From "Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman

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