coo
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After birth, a baby is immediately immersed in a sea of words and rhythm, as their caregivers coo over them, chatter and sing lullabies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
If at all possible, you should live in a place where you don't have to constantly be looking over your shoulder in fear while you coo at the baby.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024
Even the Pokémon noises are gently mellowed out in contrast to the coarser, more caterwauling sounds of the games; here the creatures purr, cry, coo and sigh like docile house pets.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
Like “The Osbournes” heads of the household before them, Lachey and Simpson were already married before the cameras moved in, leaving us no opportunities to coo over rose petals, sequins and tulle.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2024
Mike led us out of the room, leaving Lizzie to coo over the pineapples and oranges.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
In one of their most popular videos, the pair coos to the camera.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
“I actually really admire your honesty,” he coos.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025
Leon coos in a knowing tone — it was an early call time today, in a couple years of early call times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2024
“Daddy’s taking movies again,” coos Nicole, who met Simpson when she was 18, as she cuddles her infant child on the beach.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
My mother smiles and coos reassuringly, but she knows what I’m thinking.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
“I throw my cellular device in the water,” she cooed blissfully in the LP’s strummy title track, “Can you reach me? No, you can’t.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
As she peeled one away and put forward the next, she cooed about the baby: so beautiful, so healthy.
From Slate ● May 2, 2025
We may have collectively cooed over The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s televised 2018 marriage ceremony, but that is a once-in-a-lifetime extravaganza that decidedly will not repeat.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2024
He suckled readily, smiled and cooed, charmed his mother.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
She didn’t even hear the baby when it cooed.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
“Nah,” I thought, as I watched the cooing baby in my arms.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025
Usually it plays out as a cute moment, the assembled gaggle cooing awwww at the exchange as the queried party answers far more effusively than they do for their daily adult nemeses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
“They do know when someone someone’s ill, right?” he said to no one before scratching Penny’s tummy and cooing, “You know I’m ill, right? I’m ill!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025
"You have to think a lot before having a baby," Valentina Dottor admits when we meet on Fregona's main square, her 10-month-old daughter Diletta cooing in a pushchair.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2025
Ernie ripped the toy from Samantha, then dropped down to his knees, cooing at the dog as if it were a baby.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
