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It certainly also helps that chicken thighs, by wide acclaim, are more difficult to cluck up in the kitchen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

"Everyone has their own inyeon," they cluck back.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2023

With the annual Thanksgiving holidays fast approaching, the agency leaned heavily into festive puns in their caption, quipping that its officers "are always working around the cluck to keep you safe".

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2022

The Genius 13 would cluck and giggle at the notion of a judiciary superseding their authority.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2021

I know how to coo and cluck at a laying hen so she won’t peck at your hands when you go to take her still-warm eggs away.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

A University of Queensland-led study has found humans can tell if chickens are excited or displeased, just by the sound of their clucks.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 2, 2024

And that could lead to a future with many more happy clucks.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 28, 2022

My rooster's clucks are used to refer to the food – with the hens understanding that reference.

From Salon ● May 30, 2022

“So much change to adjust to,” Aunt Lydia clucks soothingly.

From New York Times ● May 26, 2021

There were rapid footsteps on the linoleum and henlike clucks and cries of greeting.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

“The difference is the facts,” Mr. Smith clucked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

A few years later he portrayed zany King Candy in “Wreck-It Ralph. That led to such animated hits as “Frozen,” “Zootopia” and “Moana,” for which Tudyk clucked a “chicken under duress” character named Heihei.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

In the tangled stanza he creatively plays with clucked and plucked and how other rappers don't paint pictures, they just trace them.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2023

“He was going to come to Washington,” Trump clucked.

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2018

He eyeballed Ivan’s attire, clucked his tongue at the gentlemen in Anya’s room, but didn’t say anything.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

I remember the clucking when Mr. Cook took over as CEO in 2011.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2024

This term means that the hens are not kept in cages, but it doesn’t mean they’re clucking around in the fresh air and sunshine.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2023

And feeding chickens turns out to be a clucking good solution to a few specific climate challenges.

From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2023

The neighbors nodded and made polite clucking noises as they walked to their iron ponies.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland