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tryst

[trist, trahyst] / trɪst, traɪst /
NOUN
meeting during a love affair
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I didn’t understand it all until my Xiaomi tryst.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

What made Mumbai's tryst with Art Deco particularly interesting was how the city embraced its hallmarks in a truly all-encompassing manner.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025

In addition to its general ickiness, I grew tired of that whole plotline this episode including Shauna’s fake tryst with Randy, the most useless character on the show.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2023

The tryst didn’t just give some of today’s wolves a black coat—it has also helped them survive in parts of North America where a measleslike virus can run rampant, according to a new study.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 19, 2022

She ventured to go back to the tree of the tryst, the mulberry with the shining white fruit.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Her summer is transfigured by their innocent trysts: “There was the still water of a lake. There were a garden’s scents and its delicious twilight air.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

What begins as a series of secret trysts swells over a decade into fervent, undeniable love.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026

These primeval trysts gave us traits that persist in some people today, including an ability to survive at high altitude and a vulnerability to infections such as COVID.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 20, 2022

The first first act was far superior to the second, which got bogged down in Vlad's own trysts.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2017

The palace of the King of Elfhame has many secret alcoves and hidden corridors, perfect for trysts or assassins or staying out of the way and being really dull at parties.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

The Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns the Sunday Times, edited by Bordes' former beau Neil, polled British national editors to find out if they too had trysted with Bordes.

From Time Magazine Archive

O Alison Gross, that lives in yon tower, The ugliest witch in the north countrie, Has trysted me ae day up till her bower, And mony fair speech she made to me.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

“I wonder,” she mused, as she watched Christine out of sight—“I wonder if she is trysted wi’ Angus Ballister on the cliff road.

From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

I'm no trysted with this man Scougal till the gloaming comes.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

I was dwalling then in my faither's house; and it's a curious thing that we were whiles trysted in the Deil's Hags.

From Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson

She keeps on lying to Maureen, keeps on trysting with Dana, keeps on fishing for affection from Neale, keeps on resenting others and cheering herself up with mental put-downs.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2019

He is a Volkswagen Beetle who, befitting a Disney Studios creation, does wheelstands when people insult him or transports them to trysting places as the mood takes him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Scathingly they view it only as a trysting place for shopgirls and their beaux, a shelter for nurse-girls and babies on rainy days, a "point of interest" for out-of-towners.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great vault of Atlantic City's "world's largest" Convention Hall, national trysting place of bigwig and bruiser, was filled, last week, with fine dust raised by the heels of 10,000 school teachers.

From Time Magazine Archive

He returned to his trysting place and listened while the serenaders sang their first song.

From The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South by Thomas Dixon




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