as in flirted
to show a sexual attraction for someone just for fun
a group of college students coquetting with each other at the beach
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Between 2002 and 2003, the IRS flirted with building a free online filing system and then backed away, in part owing to private tax preparers that didn’t want to lose their grip on the process.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
15 Apr. 2026 -
If earlier installments flirted with spectacle as a form of survival, this trailer leans even harder into the media machinery backing this fascist government.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Coquetted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coquetted. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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