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have dallied

  • present perfect of dally.

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They may have dallied with less tame species at some point and become their own breed.

From Time May 29, 2012

And though New Yorkers have dallied with both, many have now discovered a lawn game from the flyover states.

From New York Times Sep. 15, 2011

But while U.S. businessmen have dallied, the world has not waited.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Emperors have dallied with us, wanting the gifts we bear to the Empire.

From Roads from Rome by Allinson, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery)

But these are all Utopian thoughts: I have dallied long enough with life; 'tis time to be in earnest.

From The Letters of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

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