- present participle of couple.
coupling
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Until this series, the opening coupling had always seen the men choose first.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
That mutual struggle is something they can both understand, and it’s an integral part of why their coupling works.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
The idea would be to launch several rockets, one carrying crew or cargo, and the others carrying tanks of liquid oxygen and liquid methane that would be offloaded through coupling.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
But the umpires confirmed the home run, coupling Adell with Canseco in numerous social media posts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
I was holding to the hand-rods and crouching low, my feet on the coupling.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
Once the animals are brought together, their couplings will alert conservancy staff that the timing is right for reproductive success.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 24, 2024
Each new school also got an emergency generator and exterior couplings to receive clean water from tankers.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2024
That classical-quantum couplings might explain localistation of the wavefunction has been suggested by others including M. Hall and M. Reginatto, Diosi and Tilloy, and David Poulin.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023
It was a “perfect coupling” of the magnetic field of the particles and the magnetic field of Earth—and unfortunately, he says, such chance couplings are “impossible to predict.”
From Scientific American ● Mar. 30, 2023
The train jolts forward, slowly, lurching as the couplings tighten.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
