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coo

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verb

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Recent Examples of coo
Verb
Lead singer Judson Kolk coos sweet nothings about birds, bees, and Elvis while a matchbox orchestra swells around him. Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2025 William Jefferson, 37, lifts Carter into his arms and sits down at the table while Erica stands holding their cooing 5-month-old Elijah. Willie J. Allen Jr., Orlando Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2025 After months of cooing and babbling at a baby, my adult vocabulary felt distinctly lacking, and my wine terms all but forgotten. Brittani Sonnenberg, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2025 The video ends with voiceovers of Archie and Lilibet cooing to Guy. Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for coo
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coo
Noun
  • Nab the Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless headphones that wrap your ears in plush comfort while adaptive noise canceling dials the world down to a whisper at 21% off.
    Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
  • In Drama, there’s the second season of Squid Game, which returned with a whisper as compared to the blaring horns of its breakthrough first season.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Obviously, Marchand wasn’t going to let Rodrigues’ chirp go unanswered.
    Tim Reynolds, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Audio is included too, and picks up chirps and songs clearly.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • In the ’80s, de-graffiti-fying and air conditioning the subways proclaimed to the world that New York was purring again.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Signs that your cat loves you include slow blinking; headbutting; grooming; kneading; showing their belly to you, which is otherwise uncommon in the feline world; meowing and purring at you.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Their biggest problem now might be … *sigh* the starting rotation, since George Kirby and Logan Gilbert are on the IL.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The eye-rolls, the silent sighs, the passive-aggressive chats about the younger employees.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Chickens run and cluck around the Bennet home; the family’s clothes look worn, at times even dirty; the houses are cluttered, the people messy, their interactions chaotic.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
  • On their 33 acres, the clucks and crows from their flock of 60 chickens and two turkeys is constant.
    Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The door is heard to open with a whoosh and a hissing sound, but neither the door nor the plane exterior are shown in the aftermath.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
  • For each submission, the zoo will name a Madagascar hissing cockroach in an ex's honor.
    Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The animals use complex clicks, squawks and whistles to call out to each other, fight and attract a mate.
    Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The show is thrilling as a sensory experience, humming with sinister percussive beats and the occasional muffled animal squawk in the distance.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Certainly, nothing on the menu or in the service seemed to communicate anything beyond polished, murmuring attentiveness.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
  • On Saturday evening, teenagers from a Catholic religious group known as the Salesians stood in a circle, murmuring quiet prayers for the pope's health.
    Joe Hernandez, NPR, 24 Feb. 2025

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“Coo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coo. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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