as in rendezvous
an agreement to be present at a specified time and place
both lovers had to hurry to keep their noontime tryst in the park
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Recent Examples of tryst
Haidt may have told the students that no one was hurt by Mark and Julie’s tryst, but, Gray concludes, this assurance didn’t convince them.
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Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
In the ’70s, Harry and Laura both feel uncomfortable about their trysts, though the connection between them does feel real.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 10 Jan. 2025
Their first tryst starts off like a bad porno with Samuel and Romy improvising a script that feels phony even to them.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2024
The playful, awkward negotiations between Samuel and Romy at the beginning of their tryst shrewdly communicate the difficulties of turning a flush of desire into action.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
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Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
In the ’70s, Harry and Laura both feel uncomfortable about their trysts, though the connection between them does feel real.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 10 Jan. 2025
Their first tryst starts off like a bad porno with Samuel and Romy improvising a script that feels phony even to them.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2024
The playful, awkward negotiations between Samuel and Romy at the beginning of their tryst shrewdly communicate the difficulties of turning a flush of desire into action.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tryst
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While the James Bond-famous Belle Époque Casino is well known, the wine cellar holds plenty of treasures and just as many secret rendezvous with a less of the limelight.—
Alissa Fitzgerald,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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After its historic rendezvous with comet Halley in 1986, Giotto was switched off to save it for a planned rendezvous with another comet, called Grigg–Skjellerup.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
13 Feb. 2025
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The appointment the late pope helped facilitate was for a laparoscopic hysterectomy that would remove the uterus.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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Yet, following the appointment of new leadership in the U.S. Department of Transportation in early February, the Federal Highway Administration announced the temporary suspension of the NEVI program, pending a review of its policies.—
Elyse Apel | The Center Square,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
27 Feb. 2025
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The 10 instruments being transported to the moon, which NASA said constitute the largest delivery to date under its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program or CLPS, will be put to use when the craft lands near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
18 Feb. 2025
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Just three months before her death date, on Easter Sunday 1955, Ruth, dressed in a beautiful grey overcoat, is arrested by authorities after shooting David at point-blank range.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Tryst.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tryst. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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