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
A tete-a-tete with the RZA is a psychedelic experience.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2020
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
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
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
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
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
In her company, Julian sheds most of his ego, engaging in intellectual tête-à-têtes about his past works and whether a forgery can ever really capture an artist’s intention and energy.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026
Smith will have to argue that scrutinizing those nasty tête-à-têtes would not infringe on executive authority.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024
One of their most memorable tête-à-têtes onscreen occurs when Jacqueline, wearing a gray trench coat, has missed Marcus’s carefully curated romantic date.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2022
After dinner they played games in the hall and dining-room, hood-man blind, and hunt the slipper, and when tired of these, separated into little groups or formed tête-à-têtes for conversation.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
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