coo
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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
They coo and fuss over the infant, swap feeding and nappy-changing duties, and take turns to stay with him so one of them can get some sleep.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2023
"My princess," she would coo to me, brushing my hair away from my tears.
From Salon ● May 13, 2023
The boy let out a small coo as he awoke, reaching for Taisin’s hand.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
“It’s just my luck; I don’t have anything to wear,” Tyler coos in the chorus.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
In one of their most popular videos, the pair coos to the camera.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
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
She coos at the flowers as if they're teacup pets.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
As she peeled one away and put forward the next, she cooed about the baby: so beautiful, so healthy.
From Slate ● May 2, 2025
“Hey, little muffin! Look at you,” he cooed as tiny Finn was toted into the picture, smoosh-face and all, carried by mama Kylie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025
"Look at the children. They're so cute," she cooed.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2024
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
“Oojie woojie woo!” the lord of Ashton Place cooed as he put Fern—or was it Edward?—back in the crib.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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
Instead, I’d laugh, cooing for more lemon to revel in those strong sensations over and over again.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2025
But Gadot gets the best number in a tepid batch, a villain’s anthem that welds together a half-dozen sneering, cooing, minor-key tempo shifts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
Lipa wonders amid cooing backup vocals, and she goes on to rap, “Another girl falls in love/Another girl leaves the club.”
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
The sun was down beyond the Methodist church now, and the pigeons were flying back and forth around the steeple, and when the band stopped I could hear them cooing.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
