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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

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

From Fox News • Apr. 6, 2021

Flirting and bickering their way through it are a pair of young law enforcers, played by Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne, investigating an attack on a peaceful planet.

From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2017

Flirting looks a little different than it did in the past.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2016

Flirting she could not endure; she drove men away when they became tender, seeing in them the falsehood of Smilash without his wit.

From An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, Bernard