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
On the last song in the set, Woody and Casado traded lines, bringing the old idea of a cutting competition forward, riding a rising tide rather than a tête-à-tête.
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2024
Yet time and her aunt moved slowly—and her patience and her ideas were nearly worn out before the tête-à-tête was over.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
