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as in whisper
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as in chirp
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Recent Examples of coo
Chris Klimek, Vulture, 31 July 2024
And in her own company, a woman is taking maternity leave now; her baby is a month old, and Williams coos over photos of her newborn.
—Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 30 Sep. 2024
In the film, Dawn, played with excruciating discomfort by Heather Matarazzo, is tormented mercilessly at school, but the real harm is inflicted at home, where her parents lambast her while cooing over her younger, prettier sister.
—Elena Saavedra Buckley, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024
Cut to eight month later and Jelly, Bunnie and Fox are all cooing over the baby, who MGK kisses through the glass in the prison visiting room.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 July 2024
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Sunny, having evidently manifested full autonomy, finds a wounded bird and begins cooing at it like a child.
—Chris Klimek, Vulture, 31 July 2024
And in her own company, a woman is taking maternity leave now; her baby is a month old, and Williams coos over photos of her newborn.
—Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 30 Sep. 2024
In the film, Dawn, played with excruciating discomfort by Heather Matarazzo, is tormented mercilessly at school, but the real harm is inflicted at home, where her parents lambast her while cooing over her younger, prettier sister.
—Elena Saavedra Buckley, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024
Cut to eight month later and Jelly, Bunnie and Fox are all cooing over the baby, who MGK kisses through the glass in the prison visiting room.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coo
Noun
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With a fan balanced behind each ear, the device operates at the level of a whisper (30 decibels), and its battery can last for 17 hours, or the equivalent of two workdays.Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
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Neutral and clean with just a whisper of grain and pepper to enliven the palate.Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Mating calls: Male crickets chirp to attract females.Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 23 July 2024
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The music machine produced a sound reminiscent of chimes, scattered with noises of children playing, parrot chatter (from the somewhat infamous monk parakeets) and cricket chirps.Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American-Statesman, 21 June 2024
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As Stern’s Instagram posts have shown us, Bud has learned to use his litter box in front of the duo, has begun to accept cat treats from a human hand, and has even been purring in response to some gentle petting.Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
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In the end, the best Persian cat isn’t the one that dazzles on stage but the one that purrs in your home.Scott Travers, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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The ebbs and flows of the game had several Seahawks players and coaches breathing huge sighs of relief in the postgame locker room.Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 2 Dec. 2024
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Lin's daughter, Alice, told ABC News that her family could breathe a full sigh of relief now that others were following her father back to the United States.Chris Boccia, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2024
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For me, the Caribbean is the cluck of a rooster during sunrise, a coconut from a roadside truck to quell the afternoon heat.Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2024
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Her 8-year-old daughter, wearing pigtails, sucked on a lollipop as the clucks of chickens cut through the quiet of the neighborhood. 1 of 2 In Georgia, agriculture is a $83.6 billion industry that supports more than 323,000 jobs, according to the Georgia Farm Bureau.Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 4 Nov. 2024
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They can be trained to walk on a leash, to be comfortable around dogs, to touch objects with their nose, to hiss, to stand water and to problem-solve.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Set, as its title suggests, on the last night of the last millennium, the movie opens with a flock of winged toasters — a screensaver image sure to trigger fond memories of hissing modems and chirping AIM messages.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
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There’s no dialogue, at least none decipherable to human ears — everything is a symphony of meows, woofs, squawks, grunts, squeaks, squeals and simian cries.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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Flocks of sparrows and parrots chirp and squawk in the palms overhead.Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 9 June 2024
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That time of life, eh, murmured Linda, the grandmother of the trio of women.Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
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Young supporters in replica shirts pressed their faces against the perimeter fencing, murmuring at every sweet touch of the ball or ripple of the net.Rafa Honigstein and Seb Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 14 Apr. 2024
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“Coo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coo. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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