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Cruzeiro striker Kaio Jorge set the wind-up-merchant ball rolling in the 60th minute, celebrating the evening’s only goal by mocking Atletico’s mascot with a cockerel celebration.
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Phil Hay, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
The decree says that anyone who forces animals like dogs or cockerels to fight should be sentenced to five months in prison.
—Mick Krever, CNN Money, 1 Mar. 2026
The black-and-white studio image features a Bresse Gauloise (a French breed) cockerel named Jean-Pierre.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
While the sight of Lamia carrying around the proud cockerel has the makings of an image straight out of a children’s tale, nothing in the little girl’s life has storybook qualities.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 19 May 2025
Charlotte tracked down that eccentric French fan, and son of a veteran from the Foreign Legion, Clement Tomaszewski, who has been bringing a cockerel named Balthazar Recommandato (there have been 35 Balthazars) into stadiums for four decades.
—The Athletic Uk Staff, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
All that work, just to be heartlessly felled like the Bishop Monkton cockerel?
—Sophie Elmhirst, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
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Phil Hay, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
The decree says that anyone who forces animals like dogs or cockerels to fight should be sentenced to five months in prison.
—Mick Krever, CNN Money, 1 Mar. 2026
The black-and-white studio image features a Bresse Gauloise (a French breed) cockerel named Jean-Pierre.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
While the sight of Lamia carrying around the proud cockerel has the makings of an image straight out of a children’s tale, nothing in the little girl’s life has storybook qualities.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 19 May 2025
Charlotte tracked down that eccentric French fan, and son of a veteran from the Foreign Legion, Clement Tomaszewski, who has been bringing a cockerel named Balthazar Recommandato (there have been 35 Balthazars) into stadiums for four decades.
—The Athletic Uk Staff, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
All that work, just to be heartlessly felled like the Bishop Monkton cockerel?
—Sophie Elmhirst, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Cockerel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cockerel. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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cockerel
noun
cock·er·el
ˈkäk-(ə-)rəl 
: a young male domestic chicken
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