coop
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Aminah's neighbour also reported seeing dead chickens near her coop.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
When your kids have flown the coop, this is where you will probably spend your retirement years, so picture yourselves living there if/when you have reduced mobility.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026
In short, the wolves are watching the chicken coop.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026
You had an M.B.A. and were living in a chicken coop without running water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
Wait, didn’t the news story say something about a chicken coop?
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
Residents report bears rummaging through trash, raiding chicken coops and—like any good Southern Californian—dipping into backyard pools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
Electric fencing can be installed around chicken coops and enclosures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2025
Where the animals go after that is up to them, and although there have been some attacks on chicken coops, Sarmento says there have not been many.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2025
"Fish may simply not encounter much ammonium in the water, while chicken coops are filled with ammonium that needs to be avoided and not eaten."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2023
Liz declared herself my “public relations” manager for my chicken coops, and then started blathering on about the “urban chicken market” and the need for the coops to have a cool paint job.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
A lot of workers end up cooped up in their office all day, never taking, or being able to take, time to step outdoors for fresh air.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
Garrett Pomerantz, USC outside linebacker and Moss’ former roommate, remembered visiting his friend and his family while they were cooped up at a hotel after the Palisades fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2025
I was cooped up, sharing with my siblings and it was hard to revise from the bed or in the communal areas of the hotel.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2025
Airlines were helped in 2023 by strong demand for travel from people who had spent most of the pandemic cooped up at home.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
“But he’s been cooped up at home for the last two days, and he needs to get out as much as I do. Look—he’s all spent!”
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
We also don’t mean cooping up post-exposure to a pathogen to contain the threat.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2021
There is still one authorized cooping location: the precinct station house itself.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2014
In New York City, large numbers of policemen seem to have the sleeping-on-duty habit, which they call "cooping."
From Time Magazine Archive
I’d rather be outside with the men, rounding up the goats and cooping the chickens for the night, feeling hot inside my coat from the effort as my breath fogs out in the cold.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
I forgot my earlier ambivalence, and I blamed Papa for everything: his young woman, his hurting Mama, his cooping me up while he went gallivanting around.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
