cooing

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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

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

You could hear them cooing inside the courtroom as they flipped through children's books.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025

Japan is no exception, but the birds enjoy some legal immunity, forcing city dwellers to put up with these unwanted guests roosting and cooing on their balconies.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2023

A pair of mourning doves hunted for food near a shaggy boxwood hedge, cooing to each other in their soft melancholy voices.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn