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[kuhp-uhl] / ˈkʌp əl /




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The first time I truly saw Tony and his new friend-turned-girlfriend as a couple was when I took them to a museum.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

But there have been a couple of periods of particularly big jumps, including at the end of September.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The couple unexpectedly announced last month that they were returning to the UK with Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, after spending six years in the US.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Like many others, the couple struggled with the three big downsizing obstacles: overwhelmingness, avoidance and procrastination.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

“I’m off to work on a film for a couple of weeks, but when I get back, I’ll dip in,” she promised.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

‘People in the U.S. need to wake up’: As a mortgage loan officer, I rejected applications from wealthy couples.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

So at present most married couples can potentially leave £1m without paying inheritance tax.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

He and his “Fernwood” sidekick Fred Willard played one of primetime’s first gay couples on “Roseanne,” and Mull guest-hosted “The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson” 30 times.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

For years, I sat at kitchen tables with couples in their 20s and early 30s who had a car payment, credit-card debt and kids they wanted to send to college one day.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Family therapy, couples therapy, but marriage ultimately failed.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

El Niño typically emerges every two to seven years, and the warming of ocean waters is coupled with changing conditions in the atmosphere, sparking changes in weather across the globe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

This, coupled with mounting human pressures, suggests that climate change is emerging as another major threat to the region's already vulnerable biodiversity.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

"By combining complementary X-ray techniques at LCLS, this work provides a uniquely complete view of these coupled processes, opening new opportunities to understand and ultimately control the chemistry that underpins energy conversion and catalysis."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Under Kaufmann, the company took control of its distribution from dealers, opening 120 Leica stores, often coupled with galleries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Convinced that he alone remembers those days, and wants them back, aware of what it looked like but not at all of what it felt like, he coupled himself elsewhere.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

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

“Asmodeus” is a bewildering incantation about the coupling of poetry and squalor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Until this series, the opening coupling had always seen the men choose first.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

Reducing the coupling was only part of the challenge.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

The fact that he’d previously lied about their coupling, and hadn’t done the spiritual work to put it behind him, ruled out his participation in the mission.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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