1
as in to tease
to show a sexual attraction for someone just for fun
the servers at that restaurant flirt with all the customers
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2
as in to flit
to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements
lazily watched the butterflies flirting among the wildflowers
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Recent Examples of flirt
William Pesek, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
Galleria Continua’s proposition for Oh La La! flirts with provocation and banks on contrast and duality.
—Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2024
Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
Police in Florida have released body-camera footage showing a Hooters waitress allegedly attempting to flirt her way out of being arrested on suspicion of DUI.
—Nicole Acosta, People.com, 9 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Especially as Asia’s most stable democracy flirts with chaos.
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The blowback put Hegseth’s nomination on shaky ground, with some Republican senators appearing to waver, Trump allies expressing doubts and Trump flirting with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a backup if Hegseth failed to get confirmed.
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Noun
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Cosgrove and Mattingly were not charged, but Hankison was tried on several counts of wanton endangerment over bullets that entered a neighboring apartment.—
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He is charged with wanton endangerment, endangering the welfare of a minor and leaving the scene of an accident.—
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Though Evans comforted Bunny in person, Hot Ones made sure to tease him a little bit in post-production.—
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Activision teases five new multiplayer maps being added to Black Ops 6 in the upcoming season, with two of them coming a few weeks after the update.—
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While gopher tortoises can be encountered in abundance during a visit to the park, guests can also marvel at its longleaf pine forests, with bird species like the downy woodpecker and red-breasted nuthatch found flitting from tree to tree.—
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Almost all of Nickel Boys plays out from Elwood’s and Turner’s direct perspectives, sometimes flitting between the two boys within the same scene.—
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There are some dandy dividends ready to dart higher.—
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Fifty feet ahead, across a small depression, something darted through the cover.—
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Don’t be fooled by its cheery name: Happy Face looks haunting.—
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In other words, an attacker would need to fool all or nearly all nodes to remain hidden—which quickly becomes infeasible as more light nodes join.—
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Pulling the lever for Ann made my young Texan feminist heart flutter.—
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Native to areas of the Mediterranean such as Greece, Italy, Turkey, and Israel, this low-growing plant has delicate flowers that flutter on long stems above silvery or variegated leaves.—
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But up the middle, the Dodgers could toy around with different combinations nd experiment with myriad ways to maximize production.—
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Donald Trump’s Take President-elect Donald Trump has at least toyed openly with the idea that violence could be, in addition to being part of the problem, part of the solution.—
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Remember foam parties, that cultural phenomenon inexplicably popular in the 1990s that had people dancing in a room of foamy bubbles?—
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Eventually, footage emerged of Kelce dancing in the locker room with his teammates in celebration of the big win.—
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“Flirt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flirt. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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