fling
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Jean’s brief fling during the summer of 1998 coincided with the public airing of Monica’s doomed romance.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
In this zone, the combined gravitational effects of the two stars either fling planets out of the system or pull them inward until they are destroyed.
From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026
"They will get out, but not like people think. It's not as if they're going to fling the doors open like a bull run."
From Barron's • Jan. 10, 2026
Smith tried to drag a pull around the corner only for Jacks, at backward square leg, to fling himself to his right and cling on with his right hand.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025
We fling remarks at them in broken French, anything that comes into our heads, hastily and all jumbled together, anything to detain them.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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