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At the same moment people were cooing over Bush’s letter, Kate Osamor, the shadow international development secretary, announced she was resigning from the Labour frontbench after it was reported that she had misled the public.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2018

The two toddler girls who were cooing over the baby’s fine curls recoil in revulsion.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2017

Other couples were cooing to each other over their bibimbaps.

From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2016

A breeze was coming in the back, door, and some mourning doves that had nested on the back porch were cooing, making that slippery, burbling sound that Calder always associated with summer in his neighborhood.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett

The pigeons were cooing and the man was giggling—or was the man cooing and the pigeons giggling?

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli