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And that has momentum traders going cuckoo for qubits.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

In Costa Rica, a rufous-vented ground cuckoo snatches a cicada fleeing an army ant swarm.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

I have lived, Jhabvala said, like “a cuckoo forever insinuating myself into others’ nests.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

“The cuckoo clock, the Dutch door, the daylight basement — humble horsemen of the domestic Apocalypse. The VWs, parked in the driveway.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025

In her plain black dress she sat there like a cuckoo that has forced its way into another bird's nest.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

Among the more poignant moments, Charles laments the loss of wildlife at Highgrove, noting when he first moved in there nearly five decades ago he would hear cuckoos and see grasshoppers.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

These efforts have helped protect a refuge for birds including willow flycatchers and yellow-billed cuckoos.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2024

If, for example, there are many sparrowhawk-like cuckoos or many sparrowhawks, the host birds learn over time to distinguish whether the bird in front of them is a sparrowhawk or a cuckoo.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024

Pigeons, meanwhile, which were originally thought to be cousins with flamingos, belong to an entirely different branch and actually bear a much stronger genetic resemblance to cuckoos.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 31, 2024

While I saw birds aplenty, heard them too—wood pigeons, cuckoos, thrushes—I wondered if England had no human souls.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

She said she was cuckooed for months, and became "a prisoner in my own home".

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

When the BBC visited the London properties with the Met police, officers said squalid conditions were the norm when it comes to cuckooed premises.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

During the week of action, 904 of these "cuckooed" homes were visited by law enforcement, and 1,138 vulnerable people were safeguarded, including 573 children.

From BBC ● May 26, 2021

When William Butler Yeats paid his first visit to that high priestess of occultism, Madame Blavatsky, the lady's pet cuckoo came out of a broken Swiss clock and cuckooed at him.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was certainly stopped, for the weights were off and lying upon the ground, and yet as I stood there the cuckoo came out and cuckooed at me.

From Four Years by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

However, figures shared exclusively with the BBC show 1,539 incidents of cuckooing were reported to police in London between May 2025 and April 2026.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

He added that cuckooing was a "horrendous practice" that the force was "determined to crack down on".

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2022

Earlier this month, Northamptonshire Police issued an appeal to tackle the "increasing problem" of cuckooing.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2018

Mr Hopkins said these people will often find a place where they can stay in the targeted town, including taking over another person's property - a practice known as "cuckooing".

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2018

Miss Poppy eyed him as if he were a cuckoo-clock, and she had to wait till he'd finished cuckooing.

From The Lost Girl by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence