coo
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McCain also tried to extract sentimental details about the passionate romance between the Vances, for her audience to coo over.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2025
After birth, a baby is immediately immersed in a sea of words and rhythm, as their caregivers coo over them, chatter and sing lullabies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
Within the Bubble, the perpetually peppy Lindy is in constant conversation with her friends; she chats away with the cadence — and vocal fry — of a family-friendly YouTuber, and they coo back.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2024
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
The birds coo and hop as Nigel moves from cage to cage, pouring water into small bowls.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
In one of their most popular videos, the pair coos to the camera.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Grimes’ filtered coos and hushed vocals approximate cybernetic birdsong.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025
Iris is visibly insecure about Isaac’s conversations with other women, including the strawberry peddler who coos that he has “soft hands,” and his mother, who dials him up to crack inside jokes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
“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
Sometimes they talked to each other, one with words, one with coos, and I would just listen along.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
As the vet administered the euthanasia that ended Cosmo’s suffering, I cooed to him Queen’s “You’re My Best Friend” until his paws didn’t flutter anymore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
As she peeled one away and put forward the next, she cooed about the baby: so beautiful, so healthy.
From Slate ● May 2, 2025
He cooed back and started following me around,” Mr. Hartline, 66, said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
Then, while French pigeons cooed outside and strong coffee brewed on the Moka pot, we sat down and ate.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2023
The blackbirds whistled it in the hedges, the pigeons cooed it in the elms, it got into the din of the smithies and the tune of the church bells.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
“Nah,” I thought, as I watched the cooing baby in my arms.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025
Usually it plays out as a cute moment, the assembled gaggle cooing awwww at the exchange as the queried party answers far more effusively than they do for their daily adult nemeses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
McVay making faces and cooing baby talk on a video call.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
Lipa wonders amid cooing backup vocals, and she goes on to rap, “Another girl falls in love/Another girl leaves the club.”
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
He’d seen plenty of polar bear cubs from inside his parents’ tundra buggy, but never one this close-up, and suddenly he was cooing like the sappiest tourist.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
