coot

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Recent Examples of coot The university spent the next decade restoring the property into a wetland to reduce flooding in nearby neighborhoods and create habitat for waterfowl like mallards, coots, and Canada geese. Stephanie Hanes, Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2025 One Bird Nest, 30 Years of Trash: A coot’s nest reveals that what humans throw away doesn’t really go away. Gennaro Tomma, New York Times, 1 May 2025 He’s given the Heisman by a crusty old coot guarding the entrance. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2025 Is the abundance of plastic in Eurasian coot nests necessarily bad? Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for coot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coot
Noun
  • Henry Jaglom, the maverick auteur who crafted deeply intimate and unconventional films that explored the intricacies of relationships and the quirkiness of human behavior, has died.
    Chris Koseluk, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Jazz is an art form with an outsized share of mavericks, rebels, and creative dissidents who’ve built careers by blazing their own particular paths.
    Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Read the America and Israel-hating loon's exact words here.
    Staff, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Indeed, the beauty of New Orleans proper was found in its colorful variety of humans—the loons and cons, the beggars and peddlers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Coot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coot. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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