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flirting
  • present participle of flirt.

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Flirting between gears near its 8,600-rpm redline, the Z06 roars and seethes like a blast furnace.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Flirting more brazenly with disqualification was the Croatian entry, Let 3’s “Mama SC,” a bonkers, highly theatrical antiwar number that employs one of Eurovision’s favorite creative devices: allegorical satire.

From New York Times • May 12, 2023

Her first listed credit on IMDb is the 1991 movie "Flirting," in which she is credited as Thandie.

From Fox News • Apr. 6, 2021

Born in London and raised in Penzance, Cornwall, by her Zimbabwean mother Nyasha and white British father, Nick, Newton made her film debut at 16 years old, acting alongside Nicole Kidman in Flirting.

From The Guardian • May 19, 2018

Flirting again, 'May be it teached me to speak, mister.'

From Echoes of the War by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)