couch
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Patrick Clancy described his last image of son Dawson sitting on the couch eating chicken nuggets before he left to get food and medication.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Thus, our heroes must peel themselves off from the couch and go on the run with their resentful felines Dio and GG bouncing along in backpacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Jesse Mecham wants to motivate you about money the way fitness gurus get you up off the couch to train for a 5K.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
It’s an event I could just as easily watch from my couch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Ray asks, and Ana, Boo, Ray, and I sit on the couch looking at all the party photos on Ray’s phone.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
Oversized disco balls hung overhead, casting flecks of light onto the couches, which were shaped like the brand’s beloved Texas toast.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
"I had trouble standing up from low chairs and deep couches without someone offering me an arm," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The Iliad has these big, overstuffed couches and chairs with blown springs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
The oversize leather seats, plush couches and the faux library bookcases are all staying, albeit with U.S. presidential seals now affixed to the walls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Crisp gray couches and metallic triangular coffee tables?
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
The Asian Football Confederation couched its condemnation of Infantino - and, make no mistake, it is livid - in creative terms.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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
Some decisions against him were couched in deferential language.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
He couched the stunning breach of diplomatic norms as a necessity given sweeping U.S. security concerns in the region.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
Crandell and Mullineaux’s report had dire words couched between their cautious predictions.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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
