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couch

[kouch, kooch] / kaʊtʃ, kutʃ /


VERB
express in particular way
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“The question is always ‘When you have access to everything from your couch, why go anywhere?,’ and I get it.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

He also recalled spending roughly 90 minutes aboard Air Force One worried that another passenger sleeping on a couch might actually be dead.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

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

"Oh, no!" said Sam's mom, after the moving men picked up the couch.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

Oversized disco balls hung overhead, casting flecks of light onto the couches, which were shaped like the brand’s beloved Texas toast.

From Slate Aug. 24, 2026

Her business has rented couches, artwork and other furniture to “Forever” and a vintage golf club mounted like a trophy to “The Hawk.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

"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

I could jump off couches, and jump up and down stairs and crawl around the backyard.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge

But most of these intellectual flights are cleverly couched in the jowly mundanities of bulldog existence.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

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

Wart took up his position in the circle round the monster’s lair, and knelt down on one knee in the snow, with the handle of his spear couched on the ground, ready for emergencies.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

It said vaping had an association with problems including wheezing and couching, poor oral and dental health, poor sleep, mental health problems and eye symptoms.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

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

Climate research often frames the implications of warming in terms of its economic impacts, couching damages in monetary terms that are sometimes used to suggest that small increases in average temperature can be managed.

From Salon Jun. 7, 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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