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coupling

[kuhp-ling] / ˈkʌp lɪŋ /


NOUN
sexual intercourse
Synonyms


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People pay a premium for iPhones because they perceive value in the tight coupling of hardware, software and apps inside Apple’s ecosystem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

“Asmodeus” is a bewildering incantation about the coupling of poetry and squalor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Their new strategy, recently reported in Nature, addresses a long-standing problem involving electron-transfer selectivity and could make a wide range of previously inaccessible coupling reactions possible.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

Until this series, the opening coupling had always seen the men choose first.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

I yell, looking in alarm first at the point where August disappeared, and then down at the bare coupling and ties that race beneath the cars.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

In addition, the team will explore the possibility of creating quantum materials, in which radical molecular units lead magnetic exchange couplings between the units as designed -- a quantum mechanical effect.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2024

Once the animals are brought together, their couplings will alert conservancy staff that the timing is right for reproductive success.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 24, 2024

Each new school also got an emergency generator and exterior couplings to receive clean water from tankers.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2024

Atoms can be surprisingly picky about their couplings with light.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 4, 2023

The train jolts forward, slowly, lurching as the couplings tighten.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen


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