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kooky

[koo-kee] / ˈku ki /


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It’s also the latest echo of the kooky craze of adding “.com” to company names back then, which has been repeating with companies racing to add “AI” to their names or tickers.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

A decade ago, Hüller’s kooky Cannes hit “Toni Erdmann” was rewarded by the announcement that Paramount was going to do a remake and recast her part with Kristin Wiig.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2026

And Sam's kooky persona is either going to win people's hearts or crash out spectacularly.

From BBC May 15, 2026

Less than a year after their viral NPR Tiny Desk, the notoriously kooky duo flexed their ability to slip between genres.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 24, 2025

A funny thing happens, where Sheryl begins walking around the flatbed, and soon we’re all following her like some kooky dance circle.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

Fittingly, the majority of my favorites came from Cannes’ kookier programming sections, Directors’ Fortnight and Un Certain Regard — and I suspect many of yours did, too, oui?

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026

Second, Ms. Behn’s affordability message seems to be trumping the effect of her kookier statements because she is filling a vacuum left by the White House, which remains quiet on an agenda to lower costs.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 1, 2025

There was nothing wrong with her voice; they just wanted to make the character a little kookier without re-shooting the whole thing.

From Salon Feb. 1, 2024

Once she retired—she died in 2017—the troupe couldn’t perform pieces on that scale, but it could always come up with a few people to do the kookier early work.

From The New Yorker Jun. 24, 2019

Spin through the first New York City Neiman Marcus or its kookier neighbor, Forty Five Ten, a fellow Dallas retailer with outposts in Miami; Aspen, Colo.; and the Napa Valley of California.

From New York Times Mar. 13, 2019

Go out and have fun in the kookiest, most "woke" way possible.

From Salon Feb. 20, 2025

But her delusions of grandeur, as she shoplifts or fends off imaginary enemies, could earn her a place among the kookiest of women in Pedro Almodóvar’s oeuvre.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 1, 2021

And so here we are, in true Zack Morris and Mac Morris fashion, pulling off the kookiest scheme of all: “Saved by the Bell” is now good.

From New York Times Nov. 24, 2020

Esquivel Jingle Bells The kookiest, weirdest version I’ve ever heard, for a space-age bachelor pad, as they say in the lyrics.

From The Guardian Dec. 23, 2018

His character’s self-sacrificial willingness to grit his teeth through the kookiest high jinks that suburbia has to offer makes his stodgy values at least those of a consistently decent guy.

From Slate Apr. 4, 2018




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