cuckoo

Soccer is just as cuckoo as any of our usual sports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

My favorite depictions of this city know its real history is too cuckoo to capture sincerely; straight reenactments make the production of 35mm masterpieces look as piddly as Shrinky Dinks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

"Switzerland has nurtured many unexpected good things -- Albert Einstein's physics, the world economy, and the cuckoo clock leap to mind -- and is again helping the world appreciate improbable people and ideas."

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

The estate is home to rare wildlife, including curlew, mountain bumblebees, lapwings, red squirrels, cuckoo and merlin, as well as Atlantic salmon and critically endangered eels, but the conservationists say nature could be richer still.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2025

The modern cuckoo clock is a simplified version of these ‘automatic’ mechanisms.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

If, for example, there are many sparrowhawk-like cuckoos or many sparrowhawks, the host birds learn over time to distinguish whether the bird in front of them is a sparrowhawk or a cuckoo.

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

Their Religion and Philosophy is soon seen through, and always seems to me cuckooed over like a borrowed thing, which people, once having got, don’t know how to parade enough. 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright

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

It had 52 cuckooing referrals last year, compared to 29 in the previous 12 months.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024

Positive Steps was recently awarded £344,000 to expand its cuckooing service, which had previously only been operating with one dedicated staff member, Gillian Anderson.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024

He added that cuckooing was a "horrendous practice" that the force was "determined to crack down on".

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2022

I think the way she's taken her place at Cheverley Chase without cuckooing all that family out, or making them jealous, is just marvelous.

From The Princess of the School by Frank Wiles