fling
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He maintained a strong and tender marriage, despite his fling with Kahlo, and tried to keep up with the times during breaks from work on his biography of Stalin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
His fling with Pearl in the present might be a cross-cultural meet-cute.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026
"They will get out, but not like people think. It's not as if they're going to fling the doors open like a bull run."
From Barron's • Jan. 10, 2026
Smith tried to drag a pull around the corner only for Jacks, at backward square leg, to fling himself to his right and cling on with his right hand.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025
I fling the rope and rock out into the water.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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