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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

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

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

For never was a story of more woe than this — and I’m not talking about the trysts of Romeo.

From New York Times Oct. 13, 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

O happy day, that ever I was trysted with such a thing.

From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie

This accordingly doing, we came to the eastern side of Loudon-hill, the trysted place, shortly after the first scad of the dawn.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt

When I was trysted there were few, if any, football boots made, and the old man who was entrusted with my construction was a strange old "cove."

From Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches by David Drummond Bone

I have heard invisible 177 birds singing, I have trysted with spirits of the air since I knew you.

From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by Paul Elmer More

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

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

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

Marjie came out at sunset and slowly took her way through the sweetness of it all up to the "Rockport" of our childhood, the trysting place of our days of love's young dream.

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter




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