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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

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 the competition kicked off in earnest with Ronela Hajati - Albania's answer to Madonna, whose song Sekret was about a romantic tryst with a boy "who came from the mountains".

From BBC May 10, 2022

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

She ventured to go back to the tree of the tryst, the mulberry with the shining white fruit.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

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

O Mary, at thy window be,   It is the wished, the trysted hour!

From Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys by Various

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's an awesome still lassie, that," said the Mains, as he took the road down to Parton Raw, where he had trysted with a maid of another sort.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 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

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

This is a longer fight than last, but victory once more declares itself on the side of the former champion, and back he flies again to the trysting twig—to find what?

From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Gordon Stables




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