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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

"We expect the Fed to hold through year end even as futures markets flirt with pricing in a hike," he said.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

SpaceX shares slipped more than 2.5% to $132.15 in trading before rebounding to flirt with $135 again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

When I sit down to meal plan, I open my grocery list in one tab and my supermarket’s app in another and let them flirt with each other for a few minutes.

From Salon ● May 22, 2026

I didn’t understand why he didn’t flirt with me, but now I’m glad.

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

“Widow’s Bay” occasionally flirts with satire, but it settles down with self-aware sincerity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

America flirts with it and folds, every single cycle.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2026

The third involves a closure until July or even later, and this is the one that flirts with a global recession.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

He hates it when she flirts with others.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

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

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

In high school I flirted with the idea that I might be a philosophical genius.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

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

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

After flirting with relegation in the past two seasons, Tottenham have made a statement of intent.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Jonah knew that they were almost at school, that the bus around them was filled with kids laughing and flirting and teasing and griping and even—here and there—singing.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix