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In life simulator The Sims, they could flirt, date, marry and have children with computer-controlled characters.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s bond-buyback plan looks like all hat and no cattle as yields flirt with multiyear highs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

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

Let me pause a moment on the subject of Mrs. van Daan and tell you that her attempts to flirt with Father are a constant source of irritation to me.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

While “The Pineapple” flirts with horror, torture and conspiracy nuts, it also provides space for Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

She smiles, laughs, cries, makes jokes, stomps her foot, flirts and gossips about other women with a girlfriend.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

America flirts with it and folds, every single cycle.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2026

He hates it when she flirts with others.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Only one-third of stocks in the S&P 500 index were trading above their 50-day moving average as of Friday, even as the benchmark flirted with an all-time high.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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

Showing her aching vulnerability, it's about a bank clerk with flaming locks of auburn hair who flirted with her husband.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

This included the fear that she might lose him, specifically to a red-headed bank clerk who had flirted with him early on in their marriage.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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

He plays with the limits and in the race this manifests itself as flirting with the white lines on the edge of the track.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

After weeks of heavy selling the yield on 10-year government bonds is now flirting with the psychological threshold of five percent, a level not seen since 2002.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 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

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

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

If Emma knew, would she want him to be flirting with her?

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman