canoodle
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Couples canoodle seemingly everywhere — at taquerias and sidewalk cafes, near bus stops and on packed subway trains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2019
We’ll still see the Tramp and his Lady canoodle, But they’ll kiss at the end of a gluten-free zoodle.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2018
After escaping Olivia’s clutches, Ben slips out of the compound to canoodle in the streets with Lauren B. and Jubilee gets more and more worked up.
From Time ● Feb. 1, 2016
You’d canoodle with dumplings and spring rolls and sushi; and then, just as you were getting warmed up for a deeper commitment, the check would appear.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2015
A series of surreal illustrations features Adam and Eve feeding grapes to vegetarian dinosaurs while lions and cheetahs canoodle with an avaceratops.
From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2013
Shawn’s Final Date: The happy couple canoodles in a winery, and Shawn casually asks her, “What else is going on?”
From Time ● Jul. 28, 2015
It is hard to come across as a pesky underdog when your top wide receiver canoodles with Kardashians and your stadium scoreboard showers fans with sapphires after every touchdown.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2010
There was the time Ellen DeGeneres, just days out of the closet, canoodled with new girlfriend Anne Heche right in front of Bill Clinton.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
And Spicer, a man no self-respecting person would want to be in a same room with, was canoodled by celebrities for the rest of the night.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2017
A couple in their early 20s, in matching his-and-hers fedoras, canoodled on stools pulled close together.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2016
When I asked if she and Elvis had canoodled, it turned out that she'd never heard the word.
From BBC ● May 21, 2013
At the cuddle party, I had canoodled with panache, but had I dominated?
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2010
Behind the scenes, away from all of the media rantings and ravings, and the cheap thrill it gives to revive the passé term canoodling, it is surely traumatic and sad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
A fan in the audience proposed to her shortly after photos of her and Trudeau canoodling on a yacht surfaced.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
It was Friday evening, and the best-connected players were canoodling in Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium for the first presidential inauguration Crypto Ball, a special evening co-sponsored by the nonprofit corporate alliance Stand With Crypto.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2025
Later that year, Lopez and Affleck were engaged and canoodling in the “Jenny From the Block” music video.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2022
I didn’t care if she’d spent all day canoodling with him; I didn’t care if she’d left because she was furious with me.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
