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as in whisper
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as in chirp
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Recent Examples of coo
Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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
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Amateurs now have a remarkable ability to recognize the birds that are cooing or chirping—which has generated more interest in birds and directed more citizen-science recordings to the Macaulay Library.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coo
Noun
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Recent whispers from Washington suggest that tariffs are unlikely to be broad.Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025
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Veteran journalist Kim Osorio appears in the doc and says that there were whispers that Porter was a victim of Combs’ abuse, and an attorney for a client who sued Combs says her client witnessed acts of violence against Porter.Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
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Image: Kidde The alarms connect to the Ring app and, as well as sending alerts when triggered, will notify you about a low battery to help avoid those 2AM chirps.Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2025
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This beautiful cat makes the sweetest chirps and meows to talk to you!Staff report, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Cats show their love by slowly blinking, purring and kneading.Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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This is Samuel, played with purring carnality by Harris Dickinson.Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 25 Dec. 2024
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There were some sighs, but nothing too earth-shattering, in If‘s lower-than-expected opening ($33M versus $40M; still a No. 1 debut).Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 1 Jan. 2025
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Given the lingering effects of last year’s Hollywood labor strikes, the relative lack of big movies and a dismal first half of the year at the box office, the film industry is breathing a collective sigh of relief as 2024 comes to a close.Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 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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Still, emergency officials allowed residents to trickle back into their neighborhoods starting Thursday but cautioned them to be careful as hissing gas lines continued to spew fires from leveled properties and a thick layer of smoke hung over the area.Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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True, crowds were noisier and more raucous in audible expressions of engagement — hissing, cheering, applauding, with an occasional wisecrack shouted out — but the responses were collective and inspired by the story on screen.Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 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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All the other drives ended in punts – 11 to be exact – as the Levi’s Stadium crowd began to murmur about the lack of scoring.Scott Thompson, Fox News, 13 Dec. 2024
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Additionally, lawmakers across the spectrum have begun to murmur about the necessity of a resignation from Macron if the Assembly has any chance of passing legislation.Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Coo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coo. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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