cuckoo
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This is beyond crackpots, this is cuckoo coup territory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
In Costa Rica, a rufous-vented ground cuckoo snatches a cicada fleeing an army ant swarm.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 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
Like everyone in the movie, he sounds confident and totally cuckoo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
Vivian was a normal, sensible person, but I think at that time she must have gone a little cuckoo.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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
Only female cuckoos who have to get close to the host nests have these color morphs.
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
Their Religion and Philosophy is soon seen through, and always seems to me cuckooed over like a borrowed thing, which people, once having got, don’t know how to parade enough.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright
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
It had 52 cuckooing referrals last year, compared to 29 in the previous 12 months.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024
She said cuckooing got its name from the bird, which is known for taking over the nests of other birds.
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
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
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