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peacock

[pee-kok] / ˈpiˌkɒk /














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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

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

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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