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couch

[kauch, kooch] / kaʊtʃ, kutʃ /


VERB
express in particular way
Synonyms


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She spent months sleeping on her sister’s couch last year before putting her name on an affordable-housing wait list.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Then I’d lay on the couch and figure out if I’m going to watch something on TV or play a video game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Sometimes he would hide snacks in his family’s couch cushions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Mary Timby was fed up with dating apps when she booked a trip to Ireland on a whim last summer - from the comfort of her Colorado couch.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

By this point they had fallen asleep on the couch together enough times that proximity was not the point.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

People need to get off their couches and go and vote.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

The Mint struck its final circulating pennies on Nov. 12, 2025, each one costing 3.69 cents to produce, leaving roughly 300 billion of them in jars, couches and the ashtrays of America.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 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

But moments later, the house fills with toys, siblings and couches strewn across the floor to protect from imaginary lava.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

As the photographer set up his equipment again, this time across the room, I put a hand on the president’s back, guiding him around the couches, to the great dark wood desk.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

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

Instead, Mr. Pence gives the president his due wherever he deserves it, and the criticism that he offers—wherever it is due—is couched always in civil language.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 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

Walz couched his decision as a way of putting the people of Minnesota first.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2026

His request of Bobby was couched in cordial, nonpleading terms, but Bobby heartlessly never answered him, and Lombardy stepped in to do the job.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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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