puppy love

noun

Definition of puppy lovenext
as in calf-love

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Recent Examples of puppy love Queen Camilla showed a little puppy love with a designer accessory at a meaningful charity appearance on February 4. — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 4 Feb. 2026 Dog owner Keryn Hanifan, 28, of South Shore, Massachusetts, shared the sweet clip on TikTok (@kerynhanifan) to highlight what an amazing difference a little puppy love can make. — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025 There will be no puppy love for Ghislaine Maxwell at her new home. — Rich Schapiro, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2025 Fans watched the couple go from puppy love to the real deal when Cory proposed during the show’s May 1998 season 5 finale. — Angela Andaloro, People.com, 25 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for puppy love
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  1. flirtation
  2. entanglement
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  • Past albums have varied between melodic indie rock, jagged art rock, and even flirtations with hardcore.
    — Brendan Hay, SPIN, 12 Oct. 2026
  • And yet Melody also clearly engaged in some level of showmance — or at least super-duper mutual flirtation — with Drew, making for one of the franchise’s oddest romantic partnerships yet.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of flirtation
Noun
  • The core narrative, the ambiguous love story suggested by the film’s title, centers on the romantic and professional entanglements of two couples.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Using this method, the researchers demonstrated genuine multipartite entanglement across 13 photonic qubits.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of entanglement

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