tête-à-tête
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Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping are due to meet then, and White House officials expect to make some modest announcements as part of the tete-a-tete, but fundamental differences in the relationship will remain unchanged.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2023
Lula added he liked run-offs as they provide the opportunity for a "tete-a-tete debate."
From Reuters • Sep. 9, 2022
The Commission on Presidential Debates acknowledged as much in the 2020 cycle by choosing Wallace to moderate a tete-a-tete between Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2021
Specifically, last month, Elon Musk's Twitter tete-a-tete with the cartoonist of the popular Existential Comics series raised eyebrows, and provided a blueprint for everything a CEO shouldn't do online.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2018
I hear Minou dialing, putting in a call to Doroteo, their goodnight tete-a-tete, catching up on all the little news of their separated hours.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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