cuckoo
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And that has momentum traders going cuckoo for qubits.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
The cuckoo is a parasitic bird that deposits its eggs in the nests of other birds, who then raise its hatchlings with their own.
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
“The cuckoo clock, the Dutch door, the daylight basement — humble horsemen of the domestic Apocalypse. The VWs, parked in the driveway.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025
“But even if Bathilda’s completely cuckoo, I’m sure she’d still have old photographs, maybe even letters. She knew the Dumbledores for years....Well worth a trip to Godric’s Hollow, I’d have thought.”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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