peacock
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The peacock is currently at Pasadena Humane’s Wildlife Center, the group confirmed to The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
He doesn’t peacock, he doesn’t preen; he is visibly angry with himself when he doesn’t produce.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
As if to underline the point, he wore a medallion around his neck featuring NBC’s peacock logo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
This week, Rausch’s fellow Traitors, Housewives Candiace Dillard Bassett and Lisa Rinna, get to peacock in a massive crown and, for Rinna, a brooch as bewitching as it is deadly.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2026
He’s got a puffed-out chest and a strut like a peacock.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
“The house was small, so we built onto it to add a kitchen. We use the barns as a sanctuary for rescued horses, ducks, chickens, peacocks, goats, and other animals,” she went on.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
To get a sense of the topography, walk 10 minutes from the center of town up to the Citadelle, a fortress where peacocks roam and you’ll have panoramic views over the Gulf of St. Tropez.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
On the course, elaborate tombs of the city's past rulers poke through tangled trees that are home to peacocks, troops of monkeys and mongooses.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
The Ryde Hotel staff are desperately missing their favorite occupants — the gorgeous peacocks known to fawn about on the orchard-lined banks of the Sacramento River and mischievously wander through the hotel’s banquet hall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025
On the far side of the pond, peacocks strutted and preened.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
In a choreographic sequence during the final seconds of his program, Malinin peacocked to the fans—and judges—with the kind of daring maneuver that’s more common on snow than ice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
Ultimately, “banter” is nothing more than a buzzword, the 2024 answer to the “sapiosexual” craze where online daters peacocked their degrees by designating their sexual preference as “intellectuals.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
Charles’s coronation was a full-color spectacle, showing off the peacocked glory of British tradition and the bells and whistles of 21st-century TV.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2023
The helicopter landed just before 3 p.m. and Mick Jagger, 26 years old, bushy-haired and chewing gum, peacocked onto the pavement.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2019
She peacocked about the room, frankly delighted at her own reflection in the mirrors, and practised the pose she was to assume on the Float.
From Patty's Butterfly Days by Carolyn Wells
No peacocking and no polyester are among the codes junior bankers typically learn by breaking them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
"So I could see how he might be funny about actors who were peacocking themselves," he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2025
It was a novel turn for an artist venerated for his dexterity, his peacocking, his exuberance, his progressivism.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
There is a boastfulness and peacocking at times.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2023
Tourists as nuns, tourists as Turks, tourists as God-knows-what, all preening and peacocking!
From The Fortieth Door by Mary Hastings Bradley
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