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flirt

[flurt] / flɜrt /




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Once everyone is locked in, COs get to lounge around inside the bubble: eat, drink coffee, flirt with each other, complain, maybe nap until they have to perform the 10:30 p.m. count.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

“I learned to flirt there, I learned to smoke there, I learned to trash-talk there,” she says.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

"Those years when you're sort of experimenting with how you show up in person with another person, how you flirt, how you think about intimacy, that was interrupted for many people," she says.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

“They should go out and flirt with all this slop,” Chief Executive Alex Karp said about companies that are shopping for AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

“Are you suggesting,” asked Sir Grummore coldly, “that we should flirt with this reptile of yours?”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

That is despite warnings that it has morphed from a Eurosceptic party, founded in 2013, into one that flirts with, or attracts, extremist support.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The Sparks have a decision to make about how hard they want to push the rest of this season as the team flirts with missing the playoffs for a sixth consecutive season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

America flirts with it and folds, every single cycle.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2026

The third involves a closure until July or even later, and this is the one that flirts with a global recession.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

He hates it when she flirts with others.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

The philanthropy pledged money to popular EA causes such as pandemic prevention and global development, and flirted with doomsday preparations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

As I moved from darkened room to darkened room, ridiculed in one, flirted with in another, a thread of finding one’s own personal paradise in a hellscape began to emerge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

That can be overwhelming - as Leicester City found out after their fairytale Premier League win back in 2015-16, when they flirted with relegation in their title defence season.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

“Throughout my career, I’ve always flirted with the genre,” Peluso said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

I haven’t flirted, Mother, truly, but remembered what you said to me, and have done my very best.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Papa Pope’s harsh words were meant to prepare his daughter for the risks inherent to flirting with power.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

And, with this year’s Angels flirting with the first 100-loss season in franchise history, are the Angels going to be much better next year?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

MySpace, once the world's biggest social network, is flirting with a comeback.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Whether you’re flirting or trying to make friends, it’s easier to exist in places where you’re not thought of as inherently ugly.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

They were accused of flirting with lawmakers as they invited them to garden parties, parades, and pro-suffrage dinners to earn their support.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling




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