tete-a-tete
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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
Are we reading too much into a three-second tete-a-tete?
From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2021
In the garden, presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway huddled in a cozy tete-a-tete with Republican Rep. Mark Meadows, with Democratic Rep. Don Beyer just out of earshot.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2018
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
It is nothing short of a revelation, one in which we are invited to eavesdrop on a decadeslong tête-à-tête between the two masters as they discover, reinvent and refine their forms and materials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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 had prepared an occupation for him; for I was determined not to spend the whole time in a tête-à-tête conversation.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
So what could China’s leader and President Donald Trump achieve on AI in their tête-à-têtes on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
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
At its West Hollywood outpost — one of the company’s 11 clubs — members paid upward of $250 a month for frosé on the terrazzo-checkered terrace and tête-à-têtes with Hollywood stars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
But other young fellows had found out the attractions of the girl who was "hanging out at the Clymer Ketchum concern," and callers were plenty, reducing tête-à-têtes in a corresponding ratio.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various
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