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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

The price relief of just dropping most levies would’ve been welcome as bond yields flirt with multiyear highs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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

In Silber’s revival, the wise schoolmaster Mr. Lundie is Widow Lundie, and the town flirt Meg Brockie is a pub owner pushing middle age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026

Ned was offended and turned to Sallie for consolation, saying to her rather pettishly, “There isn’t a bit of flirt in that girl, is there?”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

America flirts with it and folds, every single cycle.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2026

Stocks are set to continue their selloff as oil flirts with the $100-a-barrel level.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

In “The Rat Race,” she flirts with a chatty restaurant server making tableside guacamole, who, like her, hate-watches a reality show called “Bi Bingo.”

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025

Choi flirts with the conventions of political thriller, too, recalling the shadowy resistance groups in Ed Park’s prize-winning “Same Bed Different Dreams.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025

He hates it when she flirts with others.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

It is in stark contrast to last term, when the Paisley side flirted with relegation, coming through a play-off to retain their top-flight status.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Scheffler's surprising soliloquy about the importance of chasing golfing greatness caused a stir at Portrush last year and the four-time major winner flirted with similar territory at Birkdale.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

To leaders who flirted with the idea of a new West, without America as its linchpin, he had a response: “Keep on dreaming.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 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

With culture shifts happening in restaurant kitchens, perhaps it was prudent to show Bourdain’s character merely flirting with the dark side.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 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

Some oil analysts are warning that the sinking prices don’t fully reflect how tight the market remains after months of draws on global oil inventories, which are now flirting with operational limits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

For a club that have been flirting dangerously with relegation for much of the season, the triumph over Michael Carrick's side felt like more than three points.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

A group of girls clustered around the water fountain, half of them pretending not to notice the boys, the other half of them flirting with the boys outright.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng