trysts

plural of tryst
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 trysts Tenderness is often reserved for moments of isolation when the characters are reflecting on their trysts or their wants; rarely is that articulated between two people. Tembe Denton-Hurst, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026 If the first four episodes of Bridgerton’s swoon-worthy fourth season were about desperate, hungry yearning, then the final four were more about, er, consummation—complete with secret trysts, steaming hot baths, false identities, and genuinely big shocks. Radhika Seth, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2026 Yet despite the growing global consensus that all trysts should start on the opposite sides of a hockey puck, most real-life skating entanglements occur between athletes on the same team. Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 3 Feb. 2026 Many stumble into their digital trysts accidentally after playing around with AI. Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2026 Alice, who often visited Charlotte's resting place, also knew about Jack and Rachel's secret trysts near the graveyard. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026 Two streetlamps engaged in a mute but luminous dialogue, an indecipherable Morse code, alluding to the silent exchanges and secret ciphers of strangers who meet there for their trysts. Javier Montes, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026 In DaCosta’s vision, Tessa Thompson dives in as Hedda, a woman in 1950s London trapped within the constraints of society who, in one fateful night amid a swirl of scandal, trysts and jealousy at an opulent party, decides to take it all down. Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2025 But after the birth of their three children, their passionate trysts are eventually exchanged for lonely moments miles apart. Nathan Smith, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
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Noun
  • After a nine-minute ascent—which was filmed on board for TBS to broadcast—and a two-day rendezvous, the three crew members arrived at the Mir space station.
    Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026
  • After the Opry rendezvous, Miller and Mascis headed over to Nashville hot spot the Vinyl Tap for an unplanned Neil Young tribute on the bar-slash-record shop’s small stage.
    Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 24 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Key dates this month Venus is about to blaze at peak brilliance, but this farewell performance comes with a challenge.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 5 Sep. 2026
  • And choosing dates that don’t make for the very popular Thursday-to-Sunday trip can be a cost-saver.
    Marnie Hunter, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Taking this unpaid time upfront, Bornstein hoped, might help shift the tenor of appointments later, and might even convince some to vaccinate once there was a sense of trust.
    Eric Boodman, STAT, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Faculty influence over big-picture decisions such as budgets and top appointments has declined nationally over the last two decades, and at USC, professors have complained that faculty input is often only advisory and can be overridden.
    Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The terror and the beauty of Jordan and Gareth’s assignations are that both men stop being able to tell themselves apart.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Men who trick their wives into outside romantic assignations ultimately need to be taught a lesson, and Diego de la Vega is no exception.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2026

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“Trysts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trysts. Accessed 7 Sep. 2026.

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