tête-à-tête

Example Sentences

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For a few hours on Sunday, the United States and Colombia engaged in a full-blown economic tête-à-tête.

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2025

The "Call Her Daddy" conversation was not the contentious tête-à-tête the chattering class has come to expect after decades of cable news bloviating somehow came to represent meaningful political coverage.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2024

“Freud’s Last Session” comes from the stage and, like “The Two Popes,” centers on the tête-à-tête of intellectual opposites.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024

But some fans defended the tweet, further completing the lyric with an impromptu digital sing-along and arguing that Harwell would have approved of the online tête-à-tête.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2023

I’d already turned into the aisle—one with fluffy animals and big boxed jigsaws—before I realised Ruth and Chrissie were standing together at the end of it, having some sort of tête-à-tête.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro