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How to use the word intimate in a Sentence?

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This is about the most intimate decision of our lives — when, whether and with whom we have a child. Everyone should have the ability to make decisions about our own lives, bodies, and futures without political interference, we need to organize, raise our voices and our votes, and overturn this attack on our freedom and our lives. I have seen that when we take action and organize we can change the world.

Heather Booth

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He clearly needed someone to listen and I was a safe space, i’ve had incredibly intimate and vulnerable conversations with people. There’s something special that happens when people know they’re never going to see you again.

Courtesy Loni James

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s the most intimate way to travel, you go so slow, and you have to physically work to get to places. So you really gain an attachment to the most random little towns and curves in the road.

Liam Garner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s no one panacea for the issue of sextortion or the issue of the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, it really does take a holistic approach.

Antigone Davis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s a clear connection between intimate partner homicide and the accessibility of firearms, and not just to murder partners, but abusers use guns or even the mere presence of a gun to coerce, threaten and terrorize their victims of all genders.

Kelly Roskam

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Algorithms manipulate our psychology to shape our minds and our behavior, without competition for them to do so responsibly, with too little competition over privacy, we find our most intimate data mined and sold with abandon. The digital age is not only characterized by the presence of monopoly power, but by new means of its exploitation more threatening to individual freedom than ever before.

Jeff Chiu/AP

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As you become more intimate with your suffering, your heart grows tender.

Jack Kornfield

added by Normando
1 year ago

What’s more important than even these prosecutions is allowing the American people to have an intimate vantage point into this onion of corruption that really permeated the American government in 2015 and 2016 and affected a presidency, and how and why it was allowed to take foot.

George Papadopoulos

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Some students in school are sexually active, my concern would be for those students, especially those with multiple partners or engaging in sexual encounters with people they don't know well, as it's through such intimate activity that monkeypox is primarily spread.

Leana Wen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The experience is meaningfully intimate, beautiful, and generally replicating what the owner would use the pool for.

Bunim Laskin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Set your calendars to join Chelsea and me for intimate conversations about life, careers, and courage with some of our personal heroines, we can’t wait to have you join this conversation with us.

Chelsea Clinton

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted infection in the typical sense, but it can be transmitted during sexual and intimate contact, as well as with personal contact and shared bedding and clothing.

John Brooks

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Validate the strong feelings first so you can talk through the nuance of intimate relationships.

Alison Trenk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think it would be entirely appropriate for any law clerk who lawyers up and tells the chief justice or the Marshal of Supreme Court,' No, I won't let you see my cell phone records. They're too intimate and too private,' will need to take the consequence, and I think those consequences should include losing their job and losing the CV value, the resume value that job would otherwise have going forward.

Laurence Tribe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted infection in the typical sense, but it can be transmitted during sexual and intimate content, as well as with personal contact and shared bedding and clothing.

John Brooks

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are seeing two years' worth of weddings happening in one year, some of these are weddings that were postponed due to Covid and [ also ] people having second weddings because the first one was smaller and more intimate and now they want to celebrate in a bigger way.

Ranu Coleman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The simple rumors of what happened with Jimmy Hoffa and then being in jail and Jimmy Hoffa taking Jimmy Hoffa pension away. That's a huge pension for a guy like Tony Pro, you know, to lose. That's everything for him, having knowing the intimate details on my end of how it takes place and how do you want me to let you know ? You know, a simple phone call, it could be a simple phone call. Or it could be if I hate you that much, I want to see it. Better yet, I want to be the guy to do it. Better yet, I want to be there. I want to watch him. Better yet, when you do it, I want him to be looking in my eyes. I want his soul to be looking at me when the lights go out. That's the mentality of these guys.

Giovanni Rocco

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So much money goes into investigating concussions in sports that those protocols and papers go on to shape the way concussions in general are thought about, there’s no money to be made from studying intimate-partner abuse.

Stephen Casper

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I do this because it brings me joy hearing our language spoken and seeing so much beauty in being able to connect with others in such an intimate way, but it goes deeper than that, too. My generation is responsible for picking up the pieces to reclaim our identities, our cultures, and our languages.

Miali Coley-Sudlovenick

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Players consider it unnecessary and provocative. This lockout won't pressure or intimate players into a deal that they don't believe is fair.

Rob Manfred

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's definitely the most real and raw true look into our families, it seems to be the most kind of intimate look into our family lives and really exciting time for us personally, of course, with the arrival of Grace.

Robert Irwin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Strangulation is a more intimate type of homicide, and so it generally points us in the direction of somebody certainly who knew her or who might have gotten physical with her.

Ziv Cohen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We know that he couldn't contain his behavior, even in a public place like a restaurant, when we shortly thereafter find her strangled to death, it does suggest a kind of intimate type of homicide, domestic abuse, type of homicide between a couple -- and therefore certainly makes Brian Laundrie the main suspect.

Ziv Cohen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That, again, is circumstantial evidence, but it could point to something that's more suggestive of intimate partner violence.

Ziv Cohen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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