cuckoo

That a documentary has never been nominated for the best picture Oscar is cuckoo bananas, pure and simple.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

The truest sign vacation season is over: Take a gander at the cuckoo hotel rates in New York City next week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

"Switzerland has nurtured many unexpected good things -- Albert Einstein's physics, the world economy, and the cuckoo clock leap to mind -- and is again helping the world appreciate improbable people and ideas."

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

‘Periodically, I’ve had chats with neighbors about the heat. Most of the talks have been thoughtful, but some have veered into cuckoo territory,’ writes an L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

I would awaken to the sound of the cuckoo in the tamarind tree that shaded the courtyard.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

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

From the clock popped the cuckoo and cuckooed out eight, As there in his chair he wondering sate ...

From Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems by Walter De la Mare

It had 52 cuckooing referrals last year, compared to 29 in the previous 12 months.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024

Sgt Elise Wilson, who works closely with organisations like Positive Steps, said it was just one way cuckooing can be uncovered.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024

Positive Steps was recently awarded £344,000 to expand its cuckooing service, which had previously only been operating with one dedicated staff member, Gillian Anderson.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024

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

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2022

Jim: Why do you keep cuckooing “cannot, cannot”?

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson