couple
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A couple of steps away, there's a series of bullet holes in the glass.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
“The thought of dating him never crossed my mind. It wasn’t until a couple of years later that I kind of looked at him in a different way.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
Ian Bassin: I think that there’s a couple of things that are going to be on the immediate agenda.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026
Take with a healthy grain of salt the 2027 predictions that will be filling our inboxes over the next couple of months.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
Hannah nods, unzipping her backpack and handing a couple of key chains to the guy.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
It will be $33,200 for married couples, up an extra $1,000.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
The marriages are not legally binding, but viewers see the couples go on honeymoon, before moving in together and navigating their relationships - all while being filmed, almost every day.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
For married couples who file jointly, it is $33,200, up from $32,200.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
The 24% rate goes for individuals’ income over $109,125, or $218,250 for married couples.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
They just stood there, watching all the couples dance around them like they weren’t even there.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
These quasiparticles arise when light interacts so strongly with matter that the two become coupled inside a tiny optical chamber called a microcavity.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
Auslander’s first Hermès fund included 56 Birkin and Kelly bags, which she chose because of their scarcity, coupled with the brand’s resilience through economic turbulence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
This - coupled with the 4% increase in household energy bills from 1 October when the latest Ofgem price cap took effect - is expected to push UK inflation higher.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Maradona died at age 60 from a cardiorespiratory crisis coupled with pulmonary edema.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
That, coupled with the fact that she never once called me by name.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
"With further optimization of cavity structures and material systems, vacuum-fluctuation coupling may enable more pronounced and widely applicable control of quantum states," said Prof. Zeng.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
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
The other is the Zeeman effect, which describes the coupling between the magnetic field and electron spin.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Asmodeus” is a bewildering incantation about the coupling of poetry and squalor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Then he uncoupled them and fastened the hose to the coupling pipe and fitted the other end of the hose to the gasbottle and carried it out to the saloon.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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