couch
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The sheriff’s deputies pushed our couch in front of the door to secure it until we got home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
At the end of the day, when the boys were in bed, I would plop down on the couch and cry from sheer stress and exhaustion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
Sometimes called a cloud couch, couch-in-a-box or modular floor sofa, this is a frameless, legless foam compression couch that sits directly on the floor and can open up into a bed.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
Kaya, his enormous Tibetan mastiff, joins us on the couch.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
Glory said, nearly jumping up and down on the couch.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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When the U.S. allowed China unfettered access to American markets, Krinsky found suppliers there to deliver what American consumers wanted, including couches with curved backs and longer cushions for stretching out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Good Housekeeping’s editorial commerce director, Brie Schwartz, has noticed interest in these couches spiking “in the last week alone,” she said, with many readers bringing up affordability — especially as Black Friday sales approach.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
At a local Caribbean cafe, complete with pastel floral tiles, plastic-covered couches, and the trills of guitar from “Pa’ Que Retozen” echoing through maxed-out speakers, he explains how it all began.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The inmates allegedly paid rent for the accommodation complete with couches, large beds, TVs, fridges -- even dining tables.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Tess’s house wasn’t much different from their house back in Brooklyn, except for the furniture—the couches and chairs were covered in thick plastic.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
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All of the War on Poverty, even if not couched in those terms —
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 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
Perhaps a book that couched Castaneda’s story more deeply in the context of the ’70s counterculture and the nature of cults past and present would make his story clearer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Made by artists from the Royal Bureau of Painting, such images documented gatherings of high government officials and were couched in the visual language of earlier Chinese landscape painting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 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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