kook
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When you paddle out, it’s as though you’ve entered a new world with its own language that might sound like: “Did you see that kook? He snaked me on such a gnarly wave!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2024
They called her a kook and a mystic.
From Slate ● May 10, 2024
Martell said she blew off his calls because she thought he was "a kook."
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2024
"The kook in me recognises the kook in you," she added.
From BBC ● May 31, 2023
At last they roared into the city, Mr. Levy’s speed increasing as he felt himself getting closer to the Reilly kook.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
The kooks have passion, or at least they can fake it.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2026
“It’s what we’ve done for the last 20 years, really. We’re just a bunch of kooks who got together to obsessively make things in celebration of life and in appreciation of each other’s time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Bill also had his share of kooks who threatened the credibility of his movement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
Intruders, oddballs, kooks, and villains, in this gloomy lifeless dark, fight for space.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
“Let’s get them on board, get everyone fed. Then we need to figure out what to do with ourselves. We might be like those kooks we just ran away from soon.”
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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