couch
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I wonder whether she has her eyes on a pivot to a traditional TV couch format - perhaps picking up from Claudia Winkleman, whose show ended after one series - but she doesn't seem interested.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
"She would line up her dolls on the couch and say: 'I am your teacher. I'm in primary school now, so I am a teacher.'"
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
There needs to be a really good hangout spot, so the couch needs to be super comfortable, and if the couch isn’t comfortable, no one wants to stay there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
“And he walks around the couch and does a big ol’ pee on the floor.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Stephanie offers me the couch and pulls up a chair with hearts all over it.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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"I had trouble standing up from low chairs and deep couches without someone offering me an arm," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The plane’s plush leather seats and couches and faux library bookcases will remain, although U.S. presidential seals will be affixed to the walls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
The Iliad has these big, overstuffed couches and chairs with blown springs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
There was crying, complaining, dissociating and even laughing on those couches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
The couches and chairs were mostly of the sort you would expect to see while visiting a historical site.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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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
Many of the executives couched their enthusiasm with caveats.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 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
Calculus makes this relatively straightforward, but Newton deliberately avoided using calculus in his published proofs, realizing that his peers would not accept the calculations unless they were couched in familiar language.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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She calls back to their previous interaction in the beauty shop, couching it as Edward having attacked her.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025
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
After accomplishing that feat and winning 90 games again in 2022, the Mariners are aiming even higher in 2023 — and not couching their forecast with nearly the customary caution.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
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
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