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cooing

[koo-ing] / ˈku ɪŋ /
VERB
cry softly
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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

“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

Instead, I’d laugh, cooing for more lemon to revel in those strong sensations over and over again.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 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

Day and night birds cackling, cooing, calling, singing together.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes



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