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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

In addition to its general ickiness, I grew tired of that whole plotline this episode including Shauna’s fake tryst with Randy, the most useless character on the show.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 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

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

The first first act was far superior to the second, which got bogged down in Vlad's own trysts.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2017

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

“I am trysted with your cousin Charlie; I have passed my word.”

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Chaste Christ! that unto my life's last breath I trysted with Sorrow and mate with Death; At every hour of the night's black deep, These are the arrows that murder sleep!

From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves

And do ye no think that I have mind of the bonny simmer days, the lang miles o’ the bluid-red heather, the cryin’ o’ the whaups, and the lad and the lassie that was trysted?

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson

Long life was before all the others who trysted that night in the old homestead orchard; but Cecily's maiden feet were never to leave the golden road.

From The Golden Road by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

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

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

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

It was in a grand maple forest—a fine specimen of such trysting places.

From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding




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