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kooky

[koo-kee] / ˈku ki /


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Many came to Interested in Olive Oil’s defense, calling the reference refreshingly kooky; others wondered why they hadn’t included a touch more detail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

“I told you guys before there was something kooky about this whole thing.”

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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

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

But the kookiest details are connected to true stories.

From Salon ● May 28, 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

One of the quirkiest, kookiest clans in popular culture is headed to Broadway for the holiday season: not the Addams family, which is already firmly entrenched in the theater district, but the Osmond family.

From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2010




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