as in privately
in a manner intended to prevent knowledge or awareness by others
intimately shared information that is only now being divulged in the memoirs of his sole confidant
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Recent Examples of intimately
New Yorkers are intimately aware of the city’s affordability crisis.
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Jennifer Jones Austin,
New York Daily News,
22 June 2026
To create her structures, Hadid surveyed the land, working to get to know the landscape of her subject intimately through analyze and mapping out the future project and its materials.
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Literary Hub,
22 June 2026
Leo, who spent two decades working as a missionary in Peru, would be intimately familiar with the plight of Indigenous peoples in mining areas and the environmental impact of extraction industries on the land.
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ABC News,
20 June 2026
Getting to know that chronicle intimately came with a bittersweet reality.
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Esther Zuckerman,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2026
Will Travis knows it intimately.
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Afdhel Aziz,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
Taking a bet on yourself has occasionally paid off, which HBO knows intimately.
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Clayton Davis,
Variety,
17 June 2026
The Internet became intimately familiar with a German fan by the name of Freddy documenting his trip through the American South, but everyone's favorite dude from Deutschland isn't the only foreign soccer fan in awe of the United States.
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Austin Perry Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
12 June 2026
Sharief, a former Broward County commissioner and Miramar city commissioner, is intimately familiar with the 20th District.
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Anthony Man,
Sun Sentinel,
10 June 2026
Jennifer Jones Austin,
New York Daily News,
22 June 2026
To create her structures, Hadid surveyed the land, working to get to know the landscape of her subject intimately through analyze and mapping out the future project and its materials.
—
Literary Hub,
22 June 2026
Leo, who spent two decades working as a missionary in Peru, would be intimately familiar with the plight of Indigenous peoples in mining areas and the environmental impact of extraction industries on the land.
—
ABC News,
20 June 2026
Getting to know that chronicle intimately came with a bittersweet reality.
—
Esther Zuckerman,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2026
Will Travis knows it intimately.
—
Afdhel Aziz,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
Taking a bet on yourself has occasionally paid off, which HBO knows intimately.
—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
17 June 2026
The Internet became intimately familiar with a German fan by the name of Freddy documenting his trip through the American South, but everyone's favorite dude from Deutschland isn't the only foreign soccer fan in awe of the United States.
—
Austin Perry Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
12 June 2026
Sharief, a former Broward County commissioner and Miramar city commissioner, is intimately familiar with the 20th District.
—
Anthony Man,
Sun Sentinel,
10 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intimately
Adverb
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Giant Eagle, which is privately held, has 197 supermarkets and 11 standalone pharmacies across northern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Indiana.
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Glazer reminded him of the presumption of innocence and told him not to discuss what happened during his arrest, only to speak privately with his attorney.
Adverb
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Baidu confidentially filed a listing application for Kunlunxin on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange at the start of the year, though offering details, including size and structure, were undecided then.
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Anthropic and OpenAI have each confidentially submitted IPO paperwork to the SEC, though neither has set a public offering date.
Adverb
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In 2008 the couple were secretly married, prosecutors claim, for health insurance purposes after David was fired from his church job for providing alcohol to underage members.
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Every resident of Rhode Island has spent the past year trading stories about this guy whose friend knows a guy (usually an EMT or firefighter) who told them for a fact where/when this wedding is secretly booked.
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“Intimately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intimately. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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