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  • noun Plural form of dalliance.

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Examples

  • Recent coverage of Microsoft has concentrated on the company's on again-off again dalliances with Yahoo or the upcoming Windows 7 operating system.

    Microsoft makes over Windows Live 2008

  • Recent coverage of Microsoft has concentrated on the company's on again-off again dalliances with Yahoo or the upcoming Windows 7 operating system.

    Past Tech Trends & Products: Technology Live Archive 2008

  • That’s not in conflict with what you said, and I agree that an individual who wishes to overlook the dalliances is free to do so (and in essence even free to amend the interpersonal contract to allow such behavior — this is not as uncommon as people think).

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?” 2010

  • Men have a bimodal distribution of sexual behavior: short-term dalliances to impregnate young and healthy women, and long-term bonds to raise children with women who are both fertile and faithful.

    A Kuranian Take on the Religious Gender Gap, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • They plan to make much of Bradley's voluntary departure from the Senate (though he served for 18 years) and his conference-call dalliances with mavericks such as Lowell Weicker and the late Paul Tsongas.

    Al And W?S Balancing Act 2008

  • She doesn't have "dalliances" with cultural conservatism -- she's become a prude.thosethingswesay. blogspot.com

    Hilllary Has Her DLC Moment 2009

  • Please NB, lets not equate passing "dalliances" with promoting a lifestyle in public law.

    Bulova/Marsden Town Hall 2006

  • Those extra-marital "dalliances" reflect faulty judgment and poor choices, traits that have been evident in the Senator's subsequent legislative record.

    I've caught this viral video and must convey it to you. Ann Althouse 2008

  • New York Daily News story says "citing unnamed sources, US is reporting that Woods had other 'dalliances' with a 'Las Vegas marketing professional at the MGM grand hotel,' with a blond and a brunette at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Upstate New York ..." tewcentsin

    unknown title Katie Kramer 2009

  • He was involved in a series of "dalliances" outside his marriage, he later acknowledged to his biographer, Robert Timberg.

    mikarrhea 2008

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