Thesaurus results for COURTING

courting 1 of 2

noun

as in dating

the series of social engagements shared by a couple looking to get married after two years of courting, they finally married

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courting

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verb

present participle of court

as in wooing

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 making love

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

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They were fined $250,000 a year later for violating rules against offering unauthorized business or investment opportunities to players during their courting of free agent DeAndre Jordan. — ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026 The problem with the abstract expressionists’ relentless courting of the sublime was that the process of distillation produced too much bombast. — Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026 On the day before the last weekend of the LaLiga season in Spain, where Bellingham currently plays for Real Madrid, Icons became his first memorabilia partner, concluding a three-and-a-half-year courting period. — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 15 July 2026 Some of it was sought-after — Levinson is a provocateur, and his courting of controversy has earned the series nine Emmy wins and far more nominations. — Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 31 May 2026 But Armour, who grew up swimming alongside these creatures and works for local outfitter Diving With Giants, is doing his best translation of their cetacean courting calls. — Adam Erace, Fortune, 24 May 2026 It’s often said that age is just a number, and a new Netflix reality dating series will soon put the old adage to the test by taking age entirely out of the courting equation. — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2026 During Netflix’s courting process, co-CEO Ted Sarandos said all the right things and won over many inside HBO with the idea that the brand would stay intact and operate as its own quality label, much like FX inside Hulu and Disney. — Michael Schneider, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026 The courting of crypto He has been courting crypto ever since. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2026

Verb

Was Sarandos courting Bloys for a top job at the streamer, perhaps to take the job then held by Bajaria? — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026 Washington also missed opportunities to build meaningful leverage over Russia, instead lavishly courting it with potential commercial deals and other incentives while pressuring Kyiv to accept Moscow’s conditions. — Eric Ciaramella, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2026 But that hasn’t stopped them from courting other allies, too. — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2026 Griffith soon began courting 22-year-old Christina Mesmer, nicknamed Tina, who was considered one of the city’s most eligible young ladies. — Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 14 Oct. 2026 Topgolf’s migration Since Broadcom’s takeover, VMware competitors have been aggressively courting VMware users. — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 13 Oct. 2026 Several major energy CEOs cancelled travel to Saudi Arabia, which had been preparing several major conferences courting foreign investment. — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 12 Oct. 2026 The urgency around courting nonaligned voters has been on display at recent debates, in ads flooding the airwaves and in the campaign money pouring into key states. — Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026 Those premium fliers are the customers Delta’s rivals are courting with Starlink. — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026

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To get to the bottom of the mystery of the article’s spurious dating, Cade and a team of researchers from around the globe sifted through historic reports and observations of geomagnetic activity to set the record straight.

— Mike McRae October 15, New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2026
Their accounts demonstrate how AI is blurring the line between what's real and what's fake in the already fraught arena of online dating.

— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

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Verb

As the powerhouse publisher behind blockbuster books by Dave Grohl, Cher, Debbie Harry, and Geddy Lee, Carrie Thornton is used to wooing rock stars in order to acquire their memoirs.

— Lori Majewski, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2026
Tennessee has been wooing Paramount, and Ellison’s father, Larry Ellison, had moved his software behemoth Oracle to Nashville two years ago.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026

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