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Recent Examples of coo
Kyle Thomas,
PEOPLE,
7 June 2026
As the family is photographed, several Aces members come in and pause for a brief hug and coo before ducking quickly out of frame.
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Jade Chang,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2026
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 July 2025
Our voices echoed up while, on the roof, pigeons cooed.
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Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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Noun
There's a sensual coo just waiting to whisper out of you this week, Sagittarius, so be sure to set aside some time for intimacy.
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Kyle Thomas,
PEOPLE,
7 June 2026
As the family is photographed, several Aces members come in and pause for a brief hug and coo before ducking quickly out of frame.
—
Jade Chang,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2026
Verb
As many viewers cooed over the dogs' tranquil moment, others began asking logistical questions about flying with pets.
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Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 July 2025
Our voices echoed up while, on the roof, pigeons cooed.
—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coo
Noun
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Test your knowledge of cruise controversies, wedding whispers and more in this week's American Culture Quiz.
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Sleep in peace with this tower fan, which is whisper-quiet at 25 decibels.
Noun
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What started as a creative chirp is now stitched into the vernacular—less insult, more itinerary, as the shift from the rink to the links has become engrained as hockey’s preferred therapy.
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Then, sit back and listen to the sweet chirp of birds, watch the butterflies, and enjoy the fragrances from your beautiful container garden.
Verb
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Shiny black cars and mountain bikes are on standby to purr you down a three-mile country road to the Beach Club, where the mood is even more drowsy and low-key (though kids and alpha males will enjoy messing about with the paddleboards, windsurfers, and other non-motorised water-sports).
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Cats also purr when they’re injured or stressed, not just content.
Noun
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For example, the mirror behavior, the sigh before putting on a swimsuit, or the comment about not being able to eat something because of their diet.
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Some families already are taking discrimination cases elsewhere For many, though, the response to the announcement was a sigh of resignation.
Noun
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In Threes, builds its sentences from splats, crashes, clucks, clinks, whooshes, and thuds.
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On a recent Saturday, visitors swelter under the sun in a long line stretching into the dirt parking lot and swap rumors as passing chickens cluck at their ankles.
Verb
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Then a hissing arrow pins a golden soccer ball to the Clash of Clans escutcheon.
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There’s plenty of feline choreography, like crawling, meowing, and hissing.
Noun
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The film almost completely drops any and all scientific babble from the book in favor of character development, action sequences, and emotional gut punches.
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Read a book and sip tea in front of the central fireplace, swim between the indoor and outdoor sections of the glimmering pool, and soak your aching quads in the hot tubs under the evergreens and aspens while listening to the peaceful babble of Gore Creek.
Noun
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Air traffic control at Heathrow cleared the flight for a priority return after the pilots issued a squawk 7700 — the code for a general emergency.
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He was missed — especially vocally — since Gill’s angelic voice does not, in any way shape or form, resemble Walsh’s charmingly out-of-pitch squawk-talk style.
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“Coo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coo. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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