couple
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The couple, who were on their honeymoon, are said to have taken the helicopter from the village of Markopoulo near Athens to the popular holiday island, Kathimerini reported.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Tributes poured in for the couple from across entertainment, luxury and politics.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
A representative for Ms. Juszczyk said the couple was unavailable to comment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Mejia’s story is one of the reasons the foundation has grown so much in the last couple of years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Anyway, the chord progression goes like this: it starts with G major, on a couple of downstrokes.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
To bring couples together, he suggests shifting their outlook from short- to long-term.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
There is a great sadness in this book and also the occasional miraculous story of couples finding each other or of parents discovering a child who survived.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
For the first time since I started frequenting Vidiots, the theater was dominated by groups of friends rather than couples.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Economic pressures and changing social norms are driving couples in Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria to have fewer babies, with a recent study saying Maghreb fertility was at a historic low.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Both couples divorced in the eighties and the end of their marriages marked the breakup of the band.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
Longer repayments -- coupled with higher bills and stagnant wages -- have created the perfect storm for many families.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
The lower concentration can cause nutrient deficiency, coupled with the reduced ability of the baby's body to absorb the nutrients, NCT said.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
El Niño is a climate pattern characterized by warmer ocean waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, coupled with changing atmospheric conditions, in which the typical east-to-west trade winds weaken or even reverse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
See it coupled with his instinct that in the fall election the public would be more with him than against him despite the baleful trade-offs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Maritime technology coupled with political organization was similarly essential for European expansions to other continents, as well as for expansions of many other peoples.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
That mutual struggle is something they can both understand, and it’s an integral part of why their coupling works.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
The idea would be to launch several rockets, one carrying crew or cargo, and the others carrying tanks of liquid oxygen and liquid methane that would be offloaded through coupling.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
He has me sit down and uses an Allen wrench to loosen the top coupling.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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