flirtation
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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
Love Island is back, and if you're a fan of the show, you'll be getting set for another summer of fun, flirtation and plenty of drama.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2025
“No,” she agrees, and for this moment at least we are cronies, this could be a kitchen table, it could be a date we’re discussing, some girlish stratagem of ploys and flirtation.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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
As it was, Walter didn't initially think much of the flirtations of Karen Kelly, a young white woman he'd met at the Waffle House where he ate breakfast.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
