flirtation
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According to Segura, there was no flirtation in the early days, and he treated her with the respect he did any other fellow comic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Now that the flirtation with Warner is over, the shares are worth a look.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
And like most forms — poetry, cocktails, flirtation — they work best when people engage with them.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026
Jefferson carried on the flirtation following his emotional entanglement with Maria Cosway, a married artist and close friend of Angelica’s in London.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
As does flirtation and infatuation and love and sweetness and generosity and openness and belief and trust and safety, basically all the good stuff.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
His early flirtations with radicalism and his dandyish style reinforced that difference.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Putnam was jealous of his wife’s flirtations, and tinkered with her schedule accordingly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025
The long-held assumption among the mainstream at home and abroad had been that Germany's dark past immunised it against any serious flirtations with the extreme right.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025
On Lipa’s first two albums, she juxtaposed flirtations and breakups with thoughts about power and gender.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
She’s jealous that Peter confides in me and not in her, offended that Dussel doesn’t respond sufficiently to her flirtations and afraid her husband’s going to squander all the fur-coat money on tobacco.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
