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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

You hear the influence most prominently on Symmetry, the story of a late-night tryst, whose propulsive rhythm is adorned by Gujurati drums and the sharp metallic twang of the Banzouki.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 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

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

Jim: I’ll wait for you beneath the Gallows Rigg, Where the burn skirts the planting, in the slack We trysted in, in the old days—do you mind?

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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

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

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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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

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

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

Mylio—"At our last interview Florette promised me to be at our accustomed trysting place to-night at moon-rise."

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


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