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tête-à-tête

[tayt-uh-tayt, tet-uh-tet, te-ta-tet] / ˈteɪt əˈteɪt, ˈtɛt əˈtɛt, tɛ taˈtɛt /


NOUN
small sofa
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tete-a-tete




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After its China team’s tête-à-tête with Licht, Reckitt pulled out the stops to go to the social media apps where many Chinese wind up shopping.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 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

Mr. Knightley and Harriet!—It was an odd tête-à-tête; but she was glad to see it.—There had been a time when he would have scorned her as a companion, and turned from her with little ceremony.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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