coop
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The camera’s orientation on the coop offered it a line of sight to the movements of Israeli security forces along the nearby border with Lebanon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Aminah's neighbour also reported seeing dead chickens near her coop.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
“Unlike apartment life, townhouses offer the freedom of full independence: no shared walls, no coop boards or common lobbies, no neighbors above or below,” it reads.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
Don Knotts, “Mr. Chicken” himself, was ready to fly the coop out of L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
He parked by the chicken coop and got out, unfolding his height like a sheet.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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The coops even feature conversation prompts for the table.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
"This can lead to uneasiness within locals. We've been strengthening the coops so lynxes can't access them, and in some cases we keep monitoring the lynxes and scare them off if needed."
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2025
"Fish may simply not encounter much ammonium in the water, while chicken coops are filled with ammonium that needs to be avoided and not eaten."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2023
As of late June, the ranch remained underwater, along with the cavernous barns where he said chickens drowned in their coops.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
We rebuilt the chicken coops and stables and began to plan an irrigation system so the crops wouldn’t have to depend on the weather.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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A lot of workers end up cooped up in their office all day, never taking, or being able to take, time to step outdoors for fresh air.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
I was cooped up, sharing with my siblings and it was hard to revise from the bed or in the communal areas of the hotel.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2025
“Thanks to the birds, I have never felt cooped up staying at home. So much remains new, so much can be discovered,” she writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
When COVID-19 first began spreading around the world, and cities went into lockdown, many people joked that keeping couples cooped up in their homes would lead to a baby boom.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2024
Being cooped up inside all day was boring.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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We also don’t mean cooping up post-exposure to a pathogen to contain the threat.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2021
There is still one authorized cooping location: the precinct station house itself.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2014
In New York City, large numbers of policemen seem to have the sleeping-on-duty habit, which they call "cooping."
From Time Magazine Archive
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All those years of aloofness, of cooping herself up and not caring where Laila went and whom she saw and what she thought...
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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I’d rather be outside with the men, rounding up the goats and cooping the chickens for the night, feeling hot inside my coat from the effort as my breath fogs out in the cold.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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