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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

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

Not because of shame, but out of a sense of parental responsibility, said Mr. Kugler, who started attending a gay fathers’ support group at a local Methodist church soon after his tryst with the client.

From New York Times • May 6, 2022

When wildcat ecologist Diana Stasiukynas of the big cat conservation philanthropy Panthera saw videos of the tryst, however, she was concerned.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 24, 2022

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




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