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couch

[kouch, kooch] / kaʊtʃ, kutʃ /


VERB
express in particular way
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Patrick Clancy described his last image of son Dawson sitting on the couch eating chicken nuggets before he left to get food and medication.

From BBC Aug. 27, 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

For the next couple of weeks, she’d couch surf until ultimately sleeping in her van, waking up early to wait tables at an oyster bar on Sunset Boulevard.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 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

I sit back down on the couch and slide the postcard into my sleeve.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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

"I had trouble standing up from low chairs and deep couches without someone offering me an arm," she said.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Instruments were replaced with couches; the control room is now a walk-in closet.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

The furniture maker’s shoppers once navigated an 18,000-square-foot labyrinth of couches, chairs and decor at its headquarters here.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

“I love coming here. All the seats are secondhand couches and chairs. You can bring food from the restaurant in there too,” she says.

From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson

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

But for Nihill, that joke only works if it’s couched within the larger context of the cross-cultural connections, including the fact that Jamaican-born political activist Marcus Garvey drew upon the Irish independence movement for inspiration.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2026

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

From Salon Jan. 5, 2026

At a signal from the master of revels, the combatants couched their lances and put their spurs to their mounts.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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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