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courted

verb

past tense of court

as in wooed

to act so as to make (something) more likely you're courting disaster if you keep playing with matches

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as in dated

to go on dates that may eventually lead to marriage they courted for a year before getting married

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Recent Examples of courted Beard and Murphy courted Madsen for the movie at the Mammoth Film Festival one year. — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Oct. 2026 Ellison floated the idea of having the companies leave California if the suit wasn’t dropped, while states like Texas and Tennessee actively courted the mogul. — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026 Costco initially courted the city with plans for a roughly 166,000-square-foot warehouse at the northeast corner of State Highway 55 and Hill Road, but the project has yet to make it to a public hearing. — Rose Evans october 6, Idaho Statesman, 6 Oct. 2026 The Republican president had courted the Religious Right, even saluting PTL during a convention of televangelists. — Tim Funk, Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2026 Multiple sources said the group has courted Ken Griffin, the billionaire hedge-fund mogul who lives in Miami and this week announced a $3 billion donation to bring a Carnegie Mellon college campus to the city’s Wynwood neighborhood. — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026 The news that Elon Musk is being courted as an addition to the investment team at Paramount adds yet more gasoline on this heaping trash fire of a media landscape. — Abigail Disney, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026 Of all the politicians Navatek courted under Kao’s leadership, Collins was its most important patron. — William Turton, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2026 That’s why he wasn’t being recruited by Southeastern Conference powerhouses and instead was being courted by the lower-profile likes of Eastern Kentucky, Mercer, Old Dominion, Southeast Missouri State and Western Illinois. — Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026

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Luca Guadagnino One of the best films of the 2010s, this drama stars Timothée Chalamet as a boy who discovers his own sexuality when he’s wooed by an older man, played by Armie Hammer.

— Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2026
When asked who might be the greatest thinker in America, the boy immediately suggests Professor Jacob Barnhardt (Sam Jaffe), an Albert Einstein analogue who's wooed by Klaatu's solutions to a particularly tricksy math equation.

— Richard Edwards, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2026

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Probate court documents obtained by Star-Telegram media partner WFAA-TV show that the woman left Becquer the house in a one-sentence, handwritten will dated 19 days prior to her death.

— Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026
Mac Miller and Grande dated for about two years before splitting in May 2018.

— Michael Saponara, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2026

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