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I didn’t understand it all until my Xiaomi tryst.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Reporters raced to find the kidnappers and, instead, turned up evidence of a tryst.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
Though Carter is competent at making the chaos of a rainy match or the ecstasy of a clandestine tryst watchable, his characters feel like sketches with barely any idiosyncrasies.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
The tryst didn’t just give some of today’s wolves a black coat—it has also helped them survive in parts of North America where a measleslike virus can run rampant, according to a new study.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 19, 2022
“Tonight my Lover-Husband and I made a tryst with the future,” Elizebeth wrote.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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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
These shifting viewpoints leave several crucial matters, from trysts to betrayals, in a did-they-or-didn’t-they limbo.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 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
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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
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His father trysted it from a cunning artificer in Italy.
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
O Mary, at thy window be, It is the wished, the trysted hour!
From Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys by Various
I’m no’ trysted with this man Scougal till the gloaming comes.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
As we live, there are Donald and Ian with the boat at the rocks! and we now remember with a shudder that we trysted them for this morning to convey us across to the Moors!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
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
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
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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
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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
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My august lord needs no trysting place save this.
From More Portmanteau Plays by Stuart Walker
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