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I didn’t understand it all until my Xiaomi tryst.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Reporters raced to find the kidnappers and, instead, turned up evidence of a tryst.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
So the non-holographic Brahms was quite creeped out after she found out about her digital counterpart’s tryst with this engineer she didn’t know.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
But the competition kicked off in earnest with Ronela Hajati - Albania's answer to Madonna, whose song Sekret was about a romantic tryst with a boy "who came from the mountains".
From BBC ● May 10, 2022
There were days on end, of course, when Kit could not manage to keep the tryst.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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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
Beheadings, follies, trysts and plague: Can 12 centuries’ worth of monarchs be crammed into 500 pages, about the size of a standard biography?
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
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 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
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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
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Chaste Christ! that unto my life's last breath I trysted with Sorrow and mate with Death; At every hour of the night's black deep, These are the arrows that murder sleep!
From A Celtic Psaltery by Graves, Alfred Perceval
"Not a man in Scotland could have trysted me at an hour when all my folk were in their rooms and maybe sleeping."
From A Song of a Single Note A Love Story by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
I have heard invisible 177 birds singing, I have trysted with spirits of the air since I knew you.
From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by More, Paul Elmer
"I might have trysted with them for Mac Art's Fort," said Hope.
From The Northern Iron by Birmingham, George A.
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
Last week the three still hung on, held their trysting with Death once more, but this time another draped chair, was added to the swaths of barren seats closing in on the survivors.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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Dost remember twenty years aback--the trysting place under the Holmwood Oak?--Ah!
From A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
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