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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cockalorum
Noun
  • The story is told from Dah’s perspective, as Jocelyn—who displays a quasi-mystical rapport with fighting cocks—suffers an emotional breakdown, putting their business and their lives in danger.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 26 July 2024
  • The former became fighting cocks and the latter became sows.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 6 June 2023
Noun
  • Beneath Nkrumah’s elaborate rhetoric, Mazrui argued, lay a simple drive to consolidate control through a one-party state that would inevitably empower only his most loyal—and least thoughtful—allies.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • If Gorsuch and Kavanaugh have attracted blowback for their individual writings of late, on the left side of the court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's rhetoric has also raised eyebrows for her slashing dissents.
    Nina Totenberg, NPR, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His early career was marked by the sort of gasconade many fans of the NFL had come to adore and many MLB executives and players had come to loathe.
    Robert Klemko, The MMQB, 13 July 2017
Noun
  • The mesmerizing wall art includes iconic Wicked locations, such as Shiz University, Munchkinland, and the Wizard’s hot air balloon.
    Ali Faccenda, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The first Dutch original film on Disney+, The Balloonist shows what happens when young chicken farmer Gaby's predictable life is upended by a hot air balloon crashing into her coop.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Cockalorum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cockalorum. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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