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tryst

[trist, trahyst] / trɪst, traɪst /
NOUN
meeting during a love affair
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I didn’t understand it all until my Xiaomi tryst.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 2026

What made Mumbai's tryst with Art Deco particularly interesting was how the city embraced its hallmarks in a truly all-encompassing manner.

From BBC Nov. 22, 2025

Was it because she was left out of the truth of Aimee’s disappearance, mourning her death while her daughter was off on a tryst?

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2025

So the non-holographic Brahms was quite creeped out after she found out about her digital counterpart’s tryst with this engineer she didn’t know.

From New York Times Mar. 23, 2023

But such a thing has not happened before, that Gandalf broke tryst and did not come when he promised.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Her summer is transfigured by their innocent trysts: “There was the still water of a lake. There were a garden’s scents and its delicious twilight air.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 9, 2026

What begins as a series of secret trysts swells over a decade into fervent, undeniable love.

From BBC Feb. 26, 2026

These primeval trysts gave us traits that persist in some people today, including an ability to survive at high altitude and a vulnerability to infections such as COVID.

From Scientific American Dec. 20, 2022

Yes, because spring feeds life and life is spiritual torture, a march of dull souls trudging through brown streets, haunted by loveless marriages and sparkless trysts.

From Washington Post Oct. 11, 2022

The palace of the King of Elfhame has many secret alcoves and hidden corridors, perfect for trysts or assassins or staying out of the way and being really dull at parties.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

The Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns the Sunday Times, edited by Bordes' former beau Neil, polled British national editors to find out if they too had trysted with Bordes.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was dwalling then in my faither's house; and it's a curious thing that we were whiles trysted in the Deil's Hags.

From Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson

Not guested in the house, but trysted in the morning, he goes there, and seeing preparations in the street for a funeral, asks of some one, being only half alarmed, "Qui est mort?"

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

We trysted to meet a few days later at Martigny, and look at the Cascade de Sallanches, to see if it might answer.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 by Various

But she wad hev nowt wi' me; she trysted wid Angus; so I went back home and broke the click reel of my new loom straight away.

From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine

She keeps on lying to Maureen, keeps on trysting with Dana, keeps on fishing for affection from Neale, keeps on resenting others and cheering herself up with mental put-downs.

From New York Times Oct. 1, 2019

Last week the three still hung on, held their trysting with Death once more, but this time another draped chair, was added to the swaths of barren seats closing in on the survivors.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is a Volkswagen Beetle who, befitting a Disney Studios creation, does wheelstands when people insult him or transports them to trysting places as the mood takes him.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great vault of Atlantic City's "world's largest" Convention Hall, national trysting place of bigwig and bruiser, was filled, last week, with fine dust raised by the heels of 10,000 school teachers.

From Time Magazine Archive

The owls are quavering, two, now three, And all the green is graying; The owls our trysting dials be— There is no time for staying.

From Days and Dreams Poems by Madison J. Cawein




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