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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

There were days on end, of course, when Kit could not manage to keep the tryst.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

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

And as Richard Cameron said: "They that are trysted to the Bridegroom's work, must taigle themselves with no other marriage engagements!"

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

He had returned again to his banter about the supposititious girl I was trysted with up the glen, and my face showed my annoyance.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil

I. O Mary, at thy window be, It is the wish’d, the trysted hour!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

Christine, surely I hae trysted you this very hour.

From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

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

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

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

Scathingly they view it only as a trysting place for shopgirls and their beaux, a shelter for nurse-girls and babies on rainy days, a "point of interest" for out-of-towners.

From Time Magazine Archive

I feared to miss you at our trysting place.

From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Sue, Eugène




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