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She was remarkably nice, and by the time she admitted that she—in an effort to impress us—had watched Spikeball tutorials prior to coming, I knew it was more than a fling.

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I didn’t have to wonder if he saw me as a fling or if he was ready for a serious girlfriend.

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In the 1990s, a team at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island built a 50-foot-wide ring to fling muons around and began collecting data.

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She’d had on-trail romances before, and Constantine, she thought, was funny and handsome enough for a rebound fling—some “trail tail,” she kids.

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Whether he’s rushing into a fling or trying to escape a heartbreak, time never seems to be moving fast enough.

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Softbank had an even shorter fling with Boston Dynamics than Google, and it was forced to sell the company after its investments in Uber, WeWork, and the now-dead satellite-broadband provider OneWeb tanked.

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When I come home from the lessons I fling myself on the sofa, and feel as if I never wanted to get up again.

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At sight of this generous enemy, this faithful friend, how could he restrain the grateful impulse to fling himself into his arms!

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Honey-Bee was too proper to fling hers up also, so taking off the shoe that wouldn't stay on she threw it joyfully over her head.

HONEY-BEEANATOLE FRANCE

This, with contemptuous indignation, we fling back into their face, as a scorpion to a vulture.

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