tête-à-tête 1 of 2

as in personally
in person and usually privately met tête-à-tête with the student's parents to discuss his disciplinary problems in class

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tête-à-tête

2 of 2

noun

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tête-à-tête
Adverb
  • Memos unearthed from Biden’s term show his aides wanted the president to personally sign pardon decisions and advised against using the autopen on clemency decisions.
    Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Mopreme Shakur, Tupac’s brother, has also confirmed that the mogul once personally called him in the 2000s to clear his name.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Erin Andrews is a couple minutes late to our Zoom chat.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Her husband and their helpers are in various group chats together, which Nina says are a godsend in making sure everyone’s communicating and on the same page.
    ​Wendy Wisner, Parents, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The railroad’s willingness to pay the bill, including slimming down its own office payroll to free up more funds, appears to have limited the reputational damage enough for serious merger talks to proceed on down the tracks.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • However, the reality is that peace talks between Russia, Ukraine, and the US and Europe are clearly stalled, if at worse dead with many contentions from both sides surrounding security concerns and, importantly, trade sanctions.
    Earl Carr, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Tête-à-tête.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/t%C3%AAte-%C3%A0-t%C3%AAte. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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