couch
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Jesse Mecham wants to motivate you about money the way fitness gurus get you up off the couch to train for a 5K.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
A year into trying for Baby No. 2, I sat on the couch, bloated, at the end of my follicular phase.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
The old crowded wait has become a couch scroll until your green bean skewer and brisket noodles appear by e-bike.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Conveniently, my colleagues, experts in all things entertainment, rounded up what they think is most worth your time for watching, reading and listening to, whether you’re by the beach or on your couch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
So I curl up on the couch and thumb through a magazine.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
"I had trouble standing up from low chairs and deep couches without someone offering me an arm," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Americans from both camps, along with Gannon, gathered at Tahnoon’s McLean mansion, and took their seats in his living room couches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Instruments were replaced with couches; the control room is now a walk-in closet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
They told me that he had the couches specifically designed to look like his mom’s couches in his childhood home.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
Long couches made of velvet, stacks of old books, toys all over the place.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
Asked by CNN whether he would condemn the group and what they stand for, and whether he would urge President Donald Trump to do the same, Burgum couched his language carefully.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
LIV has couched the withdrawal of Saudi funding as an opportunity for "strategic evolution" and a "multi-partner investment model".
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
Mr. Berg’s argument dissolves upon separation from the western ideological vacuum in which it is so delicately couched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
He couched the stunning breach of diplomatic norms as a necessity given sweeping U.S. security concerns in the region.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
Dunning’s paper, which declared nuclear testing to be “mandatory to the defense of our country,” was couched in the sober language of an academic treatise.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Organizations have recognized that couching fears in imaginative play is productive.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2023
Beside trepanning, the more radical surgeries included mastectomy, amputation, hernia reduction and cataract couching.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
“I’m very direct, and the people on my board appreciate that about me. In the country, there’s a lot of couching and people trying to say something and not wanting to be aggressive about it.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2022
There was no way to take the edge off the words by couching them as good ol’ boy jokes or politically incorrect misunderstandings or locker room talk.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2022
A greyhound, as white as ivory, couching on its hocks and elbows, its tail curved into the bony sickle of the greyhound, watched the old man with the doe-soft eyes of pity.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
