cuckoo
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This is beyond crackpots, this is cuckoo coup territory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Soccer is just as cuckoo as any of our usual sports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Still, I support Harrelson and Stewart signing on to a project this cuckoo.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
In Costa Rica, a rufous-vented ground cuckoo snatches a cicada fleeing an army ant swarm.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
Maya-Jade paused to spin a finger around her temple, the universal sign for cuckoo.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Among the more poignant moments, Charles laments the loss of wildlife at Highgrove, noting when he first moved in there nearly five decades ago he would hear cuckoos and see grasshoppers.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
These efforts have helped protect a refuge for birds including willow flycatchers and yellow-billed cuckoos.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2024
There are two variants of female cuckoos: a gray morph that looks like a sparrowhawk, and a rufous morph.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
Pigeons, meanwhile, which were originally thought to be cousins with flamingos, belong to an entirely different branch and actually bear a much stronger genetic resemblance to cuckoos.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 31, 2024
That meant Lady Constance had eight full cuckoos to build up a head of steam.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
When the BBC visited the London properties with the Met police, officers said squalid conditions were the norm when it comes to cuckooed premises.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
She said she was cuckooed for months, and became "a prisoner in my own home".
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
During the week of action, 904 of these "cuckooed" homes were visited by law enforcement, and 1,138 vulnerable people were safeguarded, including 573 children.
From BBC ● May 26, 2021
When William Butler Yeats paid his first visit to that high priestess of occultism, Madame Blavatsky, the lady's pet cuckoo came out of a broken Swiss clock and cuckooed at him.
From Time Magazine Archive
It cuckooed eight times, then bounced back inside.
From The Cuckoo Clock by Ernie Barth
However, figures shared exclusively with the BBC show 1,539 incidents of cuckooing were reported to police in London between May 2025 and April 2026.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
She said cuckooing got its name from the bird, which is known for taking over the nests of other birds.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024
Sgt Elise Wilson, who works closely with organisations like Positive Steps, said it was just one way cuckooing can be uncovered.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024
It had 52 cuckooing referrals last year, compared to 29 in the previous 12 months.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024
But it had tobogganed down a steep bank into an ice stream close by, and was floating away in the distance, cuckooing at intervals as it danced up and down upon the water.
From Soap-Bubble Stories For Children by Fanny Barry
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