peacock

“The peacock was just standing in front of his truck,” Davis said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

The peacock is currently at Pasadena Humane’s Wildlife Center, the group confirmed to The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Sandy said her husband had phoned her up on Monday, "ever so excited" and revealed they had a new addition at the farm in the form of the peacock.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

As if to underline the point, he wore a medallion around his neck featuring NBC’s peacock logo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

And she was the predator now, not Heleen in her peacock feathers, not any man who walked these streets.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

“The house was small, so we built onto it to add a kitchen. We use the barns as a sanctuary for rescued horses, ducks, chickens, peacocks, goats, and other animals,” she went on.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

For all the talk about horses, the Kentucky Derby has a lot of peacocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

On the course, elaborate tombs of the city's past rulers poke through tangled trees that are home to peacocks, troops of monkeys and mongooses.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025

Of the four remaining peacocks, one has several tail feathers missing, indicating that someone may have attempted to snatch him, said Nielsen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025

Various birds—pheasants, peacocks, macaws—lost feathers to people greedy for their beauty.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

In a choreographic sequence during the final seconds of his program, Malinin peacocked to the fans—and judges—with the kind of daring maneuver that’s more common on snow than ice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

Ultimately, “banter” is nothing more than a buzzword, the 2024 answer to the “sapiosexual” craze where online daters peacocked their degrees by designating their sexual preference as “intellectuals.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

Charles’s coronation was a full-color spectacle, showing off the peacocked glory of British tradition and the bells and whistles of 21st-century TV.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2023

Nothing about the way that pair peacocked their way around Augusta National Golf Club during Saturday’s third round indicated they have any intention of allowing those behind them in on their personal tournament.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2018

She peacocked about the room, frankly delighted at her own reflection in the mirrors, and practised the pose she was to assume on the Float.

From Patty's Butterfly Days by Carolyn Wells

He plays us Soulmate, a funny and affectionate tribute to Amy, powered by a peacocking guitar riff.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Although the term is clinically obsolete, examples of male peacocking are as close as the nearest bejeweled Patek Philippe, sterling-silver rodeo belt buckle or jumped-up, gold-plated pickup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Inevitably, the group’s career cooled throughout the ’90s and early 2000s as peacocking hard rock gave way to grunge and pop-punk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024

It was a novel turn for an artist venerated for his dexterity, his peacocking, his exuberance, his progressivism.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

New Zealand equivalent for the Australian "picking the eyes out," and "peacocking."

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris