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noun

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Recent Examples of cuckoo
Adjective
If that wasn’t enough, the internet went deeply cuckoo trying to figure out if Styles spat on co-star Chris Pine’s lap during the film’s premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Frank Pallotta, CNN, 27 Sep. 2022 By peeping on cuckoo chicks during development, McClelland and her colleagues have homed in on one of the major strategies these birds, and several others like them, use to achieve their super-swole status at such a young age. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2021
Noun
Anyone that tries to argue that Survivor is not the best shot and edited show on television is cuckoo for Cocoa-Puffs. Dalton Ross, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2025 Warblers have been known to attack cuckoos on sight. Nathan H. Lents, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cuckoo
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cuckoo
Adjective
  • Marketing and advertising have undergone a similar shift from mad men to math men.
    Kian Bakhtiari, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
  • Hurwitz is a descendant of Bernstein and the mad d.j.s, the heir to the most expressive of musical explainers and celebrants.
    David Denby, New Yorker, 20 July 2025
Noun
  • Plus, their fabric and fill are less likely to accrue that ever-darkening yellowish stain that tired goose down pillows acquire over time, thanks to sweat, oils, lotion residues, etc.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 31 July 2025
  • Better Threat Hunting With Better Threat Intelligence Platforms that issue threat alerts can send security teams on wild goose chases when the alerts aren't relevant to their specific organization, industry or threat landscape.
    David Monnier, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • Controllable pitching is hard to come by in the big leagues, and the Pirates would be foolish to trade him away after signing him to a big contract.
    Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 July 2025
  • Any in-depth evaluation would be foolish until Monday, when players don pads and the pass rush speeds McCarthy up even further.
    Alec Lewis, New York Times, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • For a woman who devotes herself to God is a mystic, whereas a woman who lusts after a mortal man is a fool.
    Terry Nguyen July 23, Literary Hub, 23 July 2025
  • In any greater fool game, the last one is the one who loses most.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • It was shot in portrait because it was shot in Instagram by and for a woman who was losing her mind in quarantine and had fully let the sillies take the wheel.
    Ego Nwodim, TIME, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Some more sillies from last night’s GRAMMY nominees reception.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Mia promises not to ask for help or do anything stupid.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 1 Aug. 2025
  • If the producers manage to create another roof moment, Torin and his stupid little hats are cooked.
    Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • It’s staffed by robots hosting, indifferently, a fantastic maniac of a dog named … 2.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2025
  • Miguel and Angel were grinning maniacs standing in the middle of the set with their arms around each other’s shoulders, like ballplayers after a winning game surrounded by a circle of glowing fans.
    Helen Schulman, The Atlantic, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Rather than stay pigeonholed as a ditz, Simpson (who just released new music for the first time in 15 years) went on to launch her own fashion brand, which hit $1 billion in sales in 2015 and is still going strong today.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Besides offering a cash prize of up to $250,000, the show can help change perception of a villain or a ditz and be a springboard for their next casting.
    Shivani Gonzalez, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025

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“Cuckoo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cuckoo. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.

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