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[kuhp-uhl] / ˈkʌp əl /




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But, after saying goodbye to their daughter, the couple faced further distress.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

“I think I was trying to do too much on a couple of those.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

“He’s a silver-spooned celebrity that has never held a job in his life. He had a couple of nice hits back in the ’90s, but he’s a show horse.”

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

After I was diagnosed a couple of years ago, I looked back at my youth and finally understood why I often struggled with friendships and relationships.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

I need to finish a couple of sketches for my portfolio and study for my chem test on Monday.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Ashton’s marvelous suite of solo, duet and group dances to melodious selections of orchestral music by Alexander Glazunov—here lush, there tinkling—presented the company’s two different casts of seven couples with formidable opportunities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

There are elaborate portraits of seemingly affluent Black couples, a proud school band, and women learning dressmaking at an institute in the deep southern state of Alabama.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

They get enquiries from senior citizens whose children live abroad, couples with adult children with special needs, older single people, and even younger people planning for the future.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

There were only a few couples we saw more than once.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

For security reasons, she and William could not do what other couples did, and discuss “things at night that worry you and so on,” as Elizebeth put it decades later.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Maradona died at age 60 from a cardiorespiratory crisis coupled with pulmonary edema.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

We believe that stronger geophysical and meteorological monitoring, coupled with new research and communication channels, is the first step.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Arizona State University is a public school with several primary campuses in the Phoenix area, coupled with a massive component that operates online.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

“The incoming data on domestic inflation and growth, coupled with a global backdrop of higher U.S. rates and commodity prices provides little room to wait,” BofA economists said ahead of the decision.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

In reality, I am an ageless geek, with years of personal experience, a fiercely aggressive intelligence coupled with geek wit, and the education of the best online material in the world.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

People pay a premium for iPhones because they perceive value in the tight coupling of hardware, software and apps inside Apple’s ecosystem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

By comparing the modern climate with several centuries of past conditions, they were also able to judge how unusual the current weakening of Indian and Pacific Ocean coupling really is.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

“Asmodeus” is a bewildering incantation about the coupling of poetry and squalor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Until this series, the opening coupling had always seen the men choose first.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

Harry only stopped staring at this unlikely coupling when he walked right into a suit of armor.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling


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