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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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Theories, speculation and whispers were hard to ignore, but even harder to prove.
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The whispers about the 41-year-old turned louder.
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 now, however, investors are likely breathing a collective sigh of relief, after muscling through an anxious first half that included major geopolitical conflicts, and tremors around the potential for AI disruption.
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Farmers are tending healthy crops, and water managers are beginning to breathe a sigh of relief after the critical drought earlier this year.
Noun
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Don’t forget my sister’s advice: Ample space to run, roam, and cluck freely is the key to keeping happy, healthy chickens that lay daily.
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In Threes, builds its sentences from splats, crashes, clucks, clinks, whooshes, and thuds.
Verb
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Louis let out a hissing breath.
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However, some observers have reported hearing faint crackling or hissing noises during intense displays.
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 2 Jul. 2026.
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