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up close and personal

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adverb

  1. intimately

    he got to know the prime minister up close and personal

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. intimate

    up-close-and-personal interaction

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

From BBC May 25, 2026

I was a legislator at the time in California, watching it up close and personal and seeing the cases filed, and I’ve always called that “the rise of the AGs.”

From Slate Nov. 18, 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

Saving the best for last, we ended the set visit getting up close and personal with some Xenomorphs and its younger form, the Facehugger.

From Salon Jul. 17, 2025

But Joey can’t resist the opportunity to conduct spy work up close and personal.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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