peacock
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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
Fish such as wolf fish, peacock bass, and South American lungfish were especially common, accompanied by reptiles including caimans and turtles, and mammals such as capybaras, pacas, and armadillos.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2025
This peacock stands out even in Macau, a city that embraces garishness almost as much as it does light pollution.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025
It was swaths of gold brocade, with a vibrant peacock blue dupatta.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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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
Sunset runs amid free-roaming peacocks and ghaf trees in a surprisingly rural area behind the skyscrapers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 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
Of the four remaining peacocks, one has several tail feathers missing, indicating that someone may have attempted to snatch him, said Nielsen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025
They say he’s got fat peacocks strutting around in a courtyard, protected by high walls, pecking up grain from silver plates inscribed with Moorish designs.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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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
Nothing about the way that pair peacocked their way around Augusta National Golf Club during Saturday’s third round indicated they have any intention of allowing those behind them in on their personal tournament.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2018
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 Wells, Carolyn
No peacocking and no polyester are among the codes junior bankers typically learn by breaking them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
He gives the example of going out for a meal in Lagos and how peacocking is so important.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2025
The cast is uniformly excellent, including the peacocking Washington, chewing the scenery, and the soulful Mescal, looking like the statue of David come to life in fierce, brutal form.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
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
You surely would not have us a couple of mincing girls peacocking round in this fashion, would you now?'
From The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys by Manwell, M. B.
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