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Be the one to make the first move, embrace life and take responsibility for your happiness.
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Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
It was launched in 2014 and aimed to make the initial phases of dating more equal by encouraging women to make the first move.
—USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
Lundell cut toward the net from the left side of the ice, along the goal line, and waited for Korpisalo to make the first move.
—David Wilson, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
While… that… is going down, Emma and Sam are still lying low, growing closer and closer and almost kissing before Sam scrambles away, too nervous to make the first move.
—Alex Raiman, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2023
At the Schauspielhaus Bochum, the climactic duel between Hamlet and Laertes swerved away from physical violence: neither combatant would make the first move.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
Wolfe Herd founded Bumble in 2014 with the idea of creating a dating app that let women make the first move, thereby reducing the unsolicited messages that many were bombarded with on other services.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2023
What sets Bumble apart from competitors is that women make the first move — a feature Herd designed to put them more in control of their dating lives and to help limit unsolicited messages from prospects that don't interest them.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2023
Instead, the two sides are once again playing a game of chicken, waiting for the other side to make the first move.
—Oliver Darcy, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
It was launched in 2014 and aimed to make the initial phases of dating more equal by encouraging women to make the first move.
—USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
Lundell cut toward the net from the left side of the ice, along the goal line, and waited for Korpisalo to make the first move.
—David Wilson, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
While… that… is going down, Emma and Sam are still lying low, growing closer and closer and almost kissing before Sam scrambles away, too nervous to make the first move.
—Alex Raiman, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2023
At the Schauspielhaus Bochum, the climactic duel between Hamlet and Laertes swerved away from physical violence: neither combatant would make the first move.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
Wolfe Herd founded Bumble in 2014 with the idea of creating a dating app that let women make the first move, thereby reducing the unsolicited messages that many were bombarded with on other services.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2023
What sets Bumble apart from competitors is that women make the first move — a feature Herd designed to put them more in control of their dating lives and to help limit unsolicited messages from prospects that don't interest them.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2023
Instead, the two sides are once again playing a game of chicken, waiting for the other side to make the first move.
—Oliver Darcy, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
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