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peacock

[pee-kok] / ˈpiˌkɒk /














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The en suite bathroom is as flamboyant as they come, with stars, peacock feathers, and graphic prints painted across the ceiling, purple walls, and double vanity.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

The peacock was well known in the neighborhood where it lived for years, and some residents had come to call him Sugar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

The peacock is currently at Pasadena Humane’s Wildlife Center, the group confirmed to The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Tom Walne, or Farmer Tom as he is more affectionately known across Suffolk, said the peacock appeared at his farm near Copdock on Monday.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

It is a splendid cow, like a peacock, with every hair a different shimmering color.”

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

“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

For all the talk about horses, the Kentucky Derby has a lot of peacocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 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

Gandhi said that peacocks are not typically used for fighting but that there is real reason to be worried for their welfare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025

Then there were stuffed birds, popinjays, and maggot- pies and kingfishers, and peacocks with all their feathers but two, and tiny birds like beetles,'and a reputed phoenix which smelt of incense and cinnamon.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

Remember that he also is suspected of being an outlaw, in that you saw him once use a peacocked arrow.

From Robin Hood by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth

He plays us Soulmate, a funny and affectionate tribute to Amy, powered by a peacocking guitar riff.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

No peacocking and no polyester are among the codes junior bankers typically learn by breaking them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Inevitably, the group’s career cooled throughout the ’90s and early 2000s as peacocking hard rock gave way to grunge and pop-punk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 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

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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