a couple

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Three people told The Times they accepted a couple dollars to sign, with one saying he signed multiple signatures using various names and received $10.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

“When we bring this massive amount of electricity demand to the grid, and there’s a couple ways the grid can respond,” Jeremiah Johnson, an environmental researcher at North Carolina State University, said.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2026

You can find a few old photos, from the late 1980s, of Trump and Hogan posing together, when the future president played host to a couple of major WWE events.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

And he's got his sights set on a couple of prizes of his own.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Unfortunately, Picnic’s mom lost that job a couple of years ago; in the last economic dip, the offices—several gray, joyless buildings filled with cubicles and meeting rooms—laid off half their cleaning staff.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith