couched
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Many of the executives couched their enthusiasm with caveats.
From Salon • Jun. 24, 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
Mr. Berg’s argument dissolves upon separation from the western ideological vacuum in which it is so delicately couched.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 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
