coo
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If at all possible, you should live in a place where you don't have to constantly be looking over your shoulder in fear while you coo at the baby.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024
They coo and fuss over the infant, swap feeding and nappy-changing duties, and take turns to stay with him so one of them can get some sleep.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2023
With their bobbing heads, clumsy gaits and dull-sounding "coo" noises, pigeons are often mistaken for being downright stupid pests.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2023
A bit hesitant at first to exchange phone numbers, “we took a giant step,” Ms. Geanoules said, pausing to pat and coo at one of the Abbys.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
Laurie had christened it, saying it was highly appropriate to the gentle lovers who ‘went on together like a pair of turtledoves, with first a bill and then a coo’.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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When she rebuffs him by calling him an animal, he smiles widely, showcasing fangs one could rightly describe as gorgeous, and coos, “We are all animals, my lady.”
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
In one of their most popular videos, the pair coos to the camera.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
“Slap the City” clatters and coos with R&B falsetto and at least makes the blank nihilism of Drake’s dating life feel self-aware.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
“Daddy’s taking movies again,” coos Nicole, who met Simpson when she was 18, as she cuddles her infant child on the beach.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
“It’s all right, dear. Everything’s all right,” she coos.
From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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As she peeled one away and put forward the next, she cooed about the baby: so beautiful, so healthy.
From Slate ● May 2, 2025
“Hey, little muffin! Look at you,” he cooed as tiny Finn was toted into the picture, smoosh-face and all, carried by mama Kylie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025
"Look at the children. They're so cute," she cooed.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2024
He cooed back and started following me around,” Mr. Hartline, 66, said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
He cooed at her, but it turned into a whine.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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One brother does the firing, the other waves goodbye, cooing, “We hope we can still be friends who never speak to each other.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
There were gurgling, cooing, month-and-a-half old newborns in Brooklyn and Westchester who had never known the soul-emptying pain of a crushing Knicks defeat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
“Nah,” I thought, as I watched the cooing baby in my arms.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025
"You have to think a lot before having a baby," Valentina Dottor admits when we meet on Fregona's main square, her 10-month-old daughter Diletta cooing in a pushchair.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2025
It wasn’t just their sweet faces and lovely cooing that made the hummingbears so irresistible.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
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