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cuckoo

[koo-koo, kook-oo] / ˈku ku, ˈkʊk u /


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Still, I support Harrelson and Stewart signing on to a project this cuckoo.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 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

I have lived, Jhabvala said, like “a cuckoo forever insinuating myself into others’ nests.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

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

At the center, where a cuckoo bird would live in a more traditional timepiece, is the juggler.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern




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