peacock
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From her perch in New Orleans, she has also reported on natural disasters, the big business of Mardi Gras and her neighborhood peacock, Mr. P.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 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
And every time she dug, she found a treasure trove of peacock snails.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
For all the talk about horses, the Kentucky Derby has a lot of peacocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 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
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
The cubs watched warily as the other captives were lowered to the ground near them, and soon the crowd had moved away to inspect the bears, the peacocks, the monkeys.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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
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
Stone-faced men in suits with badges pinned to their belts peacocked around.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2022
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
At once he had endeavored to satisfy old Gamewell by telling him the story of the peacocked arrow.
From Robin Hood by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
No peacocking and no polyester are among them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
The Guardian's Rebecca Nicholson described it as "peacocking, mesmerising television" in her four-star review, but did warn the show was "demanding drama, to be approached with care and focus".
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2024
“We call on Mr. Peltz to end his peacocking so that Disney can focus on its bright future, and not be dragged backward in time,” Jason Aintabi, Blackwells’ chief investment officer, said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
There is a boastfulness and peacocking at times.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2023
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 M. B. Manwell
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