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as in haunt
a place for spending time or for socializing
the arcade was the rendezvous of choice for most of the teenagers in town
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as in appointment
an agreement to be present at a specified time and place
I have a rendezvous with him at lunchtime
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as in to meet
to come together into one body or place
we'll rendezvous at the entrance to the park at 6:00 p.m.
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Recent Examples of rendezvous
Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
The episode ‘Rose’, now available to stream, sees Ilya and Shane trading in their usual discreet hotel rendezvous for Ilya’s mansion.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2025
Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
Only four days long, the mission stood out for demonstrating all of the skills needed to send astronauts to the moon, including rendezvousing and docking with an Agena target and the first successful spacewalks conducted by crewmate Buzz Aldrin.
—Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 9 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Though Rachel arrives under the guise of a recent customer with a follow-up question for her shoe salesman, she's actually arrived to share a steamy rendezvous with Marty.
—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
The episode ‘Rose’, now available to stream, sees Ilya and Shane trading in their usual discreet hotel rendezvous for Ilya’s mansion.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2025
Verb
The Orion capsule would rendezvous with the Starship in orbit around the moon and transfer two astronauts.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
Only four days long, the mission stood out for demonstrating all of the skills needed to send astronauts to the moon, including rendezvousing and docking with an Agena target and the first successful spacewalks conducted by crewmate Buzz Aldrin.
—Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 9 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rendezvous
Noun
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Jazz haunts with debts owed to its creators, and has a knack for revivals, collectives, new venues in the old forms, and stalwart clubs revivified by benefactors and grant funding.—
Celina Pereira,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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Yin Mang to wax poetic and Capadonna to visit old haunts and walk down memory lane.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
23 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Mon Lumière was built as a smart, cost-efficient alternative that complements professional dermatology treatments and supports consistency between appointments.—
William Jones
January 29,
Miami Herald,
29 Jan. 2026
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The companies provide rides to medical appointments for Medicaid members at no cost to the patients, and in a nine-county region around Denver, they’re coordinated by a broker.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
29 Jan. 2026
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For Proust—who may have met Wilde and even been the subject of the older man’s amorous attention (though accounts of their meeting or meetings could be apocryphal)—his downfall showed that life featured far keener sorrows than those encountered in books.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
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On January 19, CNN reported that Soltani was in good physical health and had been able to meet with his family, according to Hengaw and one of his relatives.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
2 Feb. 2026
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Rounding out the season one cast were Eddie Mekka as Shirley’s sometimes-boyfriend Carmine Ragusa, and Phil Foster as Laverne’s father, Frank DeFazio, who ran the local hangout, the Pizza Bowl.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The second location on Wells Street, near Marquette University's campus, has become a hangout spot for Marquette students looking for late-night or post-game desserts, the Marquette Wire reported.—
Bridget Fogarty,
jsonline.com,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Kickoff times and broadcast information for all of Pitt's games will be announced at a later date.—
Mike Darnay,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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But the momentum extended to the mid-market, too, with Bonhams seeing its strongest week of modern and contemporary art sales to date.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The question isn't whether AI capabilities will converge.—
Steven Wolfe Pereira,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Protests continue Protesters continued to converge at the scene of the shooting despite dangerously cold weather.—
Jack Brook,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Outside the detention center on Wednesday, Texas state police deployed chemical irritants toward protesters, who had gathered in support of the detainees being held at the facility.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Jan. 2026
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Another separatist group called Stay Free Alberta has been gathering signatures for a petition to ask the provincial government to call a referendum, and some meetings have drawn large crowds.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
Verb
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At the same time, actually building the mechanism and assembling all the gears and pulleys is a little crash course in engineering and construction that's sure to get their own brain's cogs turning.—
Ian Stokes,
Space.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Even so, when taken together with earlier studies, the results make a strong case that space itself can assemble key pieces of life’s chemistry long before Earth‑like environments come into play.—
William A. Haseltine,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Rendezvous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rendezvous. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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