flirtation
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The next week I told a Gen Z co-worker about my flirtation at the hotel bar and admitted I wasn’t sure whether I was even ready to date or tell anyone my sad story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Now that the flirtation with Warner is over, the shares are worth a look.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 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
Corn in a dip is always a flirtation — sweet, juicy, a little showy.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025
During a six-month flirtation with teenage angst, I stopped speaking to my parents, refused to turn in homework, and threw my old books in the trash.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
His early flirtations with radicalism and his dandyish style reinforced that difference.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
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
Pecker also promoted his presidential flirtations before the elections of 2000 and 2012.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
He had many flirtations, but he never found a wife.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
