tête-à-tête
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While I was there, he had an hourlong tête-à-tête with his former chief rival, Petro Poroshenko.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
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
So few of the specifics of their tête-à-tête with Altman have become public that it’s hard to assess who’s right.
From Slate ● Nov. 27, 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
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Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping are due to meet then, and White House officials expect to make some modest announcements as part of the tete-a-tete, but fundamental differences in the relationship will remain unchanged.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
Lula added he liked run-offs as they provide the opportunity for a "tete-a-tete debate."
From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2022
Specifically, last month, Elon Musk's Twitter tete-a-tete with the cartoonist of the popular Existential Comics series raised eyebrows, and provided a blueprint for everything a CEO shouldn't do online.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2018
Its impact was also dulled by West’s own stardom, becoming merely another gossipy chapter in their tete-a-tete.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2017
I hear Minou dialing, putting in a call to Doroteo, their goodnight tete-a-tete, catching up on all the little news of their separated hours.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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And it was during one of those tête-à-têtes that Infantino suggested the idea of a first annual Peace Prize.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The tête-à-têtes between Ethan and Traveler should crackle, but they feel flat.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024
The puppeteers achieve striking emotional effects, especially with their ape’s eyes, during several tender tête-à-têtes between Kong and Pitts’ Darrow, who in this version comes to see something of herself in the chained beast.
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2018
In each of these dozen pictorial tête-à-têtes, two artists share images — scores, sometimes hundreds — and the occasional brief video.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2017
She was destined to long tête-à-têtes that day; for as soon as her little party was seen in the distance, the larger company took up their line of march again.
From The Old Helmet, Volume I by Susan Warner
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