couch
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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
A year into trying for Baby No. 2, I sat on the couch, bloated, at the end of my follicular phase.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
The old crowded wait has become a couch scroll until your green bean skewer and brisket noodles appear by e-bike.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
They recorded at Hoffs’ place — “We’d move this couch and the drums would go right here,” she says — beneath a vaulted ceiling that provided just the right ambience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Celia picks me up, and when we get home, we find Mom on the couch with a book in front of her.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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Anecdotes and analysis are interspersed with photos of all sorts of sofas and couches, calling into question ideas about where and how we find respite and support — or not.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 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
Albertsons wants to not only sell ad placements but help brands develop content designed to move consumers from their couches to the checkout line, said Monahan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
The performance space was decorated like a lounge, furnished with plush couches and chaises to approximate the vibe on a ship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 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
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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
But he couched those remarks within a broader message: The U.S. would always remain Europe’s ally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Walz couched his decision as a way of putting the people of Minnesota first.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2026
Like most advice on style that is couched as a commandment rather than an explanation, the flat directive to avoid negations is almost useless.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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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