coop
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You don’t need a cardboard coop to emulate the competition elsewhere—and if ice cream isn’t enough of a draw, treat the person who goes longest without using their phone to a free drink.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Their farmhouse was already old when I first saw it in 1966, complete with a chicken coop out back.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
Aminah's neighbour also reported seeing dead chickens near her coop.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
With your mortgage soon to be paid off and your kids flying the coop, you could supercharge your retirement savings.
From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026
Soon he had the hens hobbled inside their coop.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
The coops even feature conversation prompts for the table.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Where the animals go after that is up to them, and although there have been some attacks on chicken coops, Sarmento says there have not been many.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2025
Many people from Haiti and Latin America now work in the coops and slaughterhouses of the expanding poultry industry, which extends north into Maryland and Delaware.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
"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
The Point Prospect camp-ground south of Rose Hill was said to be swarming with soldiers who made forays on chicken coops, pigpens, and smokehouses where winter meat was hung.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
"To be cooped up from 4pm - and I didn't get back to my hotel until nearly 2am - that's almost 10 hours to watch 90 minutes of football," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025
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
Airlines were helped in 2023 by strong demand for travel from people who had spent most of the pandemic cooped up at home.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
We can’t help but root for him when he’s cooped up in the bathroom, crying all by himself.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2023
I didn’t mind it, but Gram, who hated being cooped up inside, went a little stir-crazy.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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
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
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
