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Your only remaining responsibility is to slice a lime for the bowl — and perhaps one for the drink you’ll carry back to the couch, where the air conditioner is already hard at work.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

Dressed in a top hat and tails, he carried the singer across the stage to a couch where she changed outfits before performing I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

You can pace around the living room when you’re watching TV instead of plopping down on the couch.

From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026

The room is anchored by a large velvet couch in a rich brown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

He lived on a lumpy couch with an aunt and uncle who did not want him.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

The plane’s plush leather seats and couches and faux library bookcases will remain, although U.S. presidential seals will be affixed to the walls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Instruments were replaced with couches; the control room is now a walk-in closet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

The furniture maker’s shoppers once navigated an 18,000-square-foot labyrinth of couches, chairs and decor at its headquarters here.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

There was crying, complaining, dissociating and even laughing on those couches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

Instead of couches, there are two rowboats stuffed with pillows and a cushion.

From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya

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

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

These orders are typically couched in procedural language that indicates they are merely temporary measures and don’t resolve core legal questions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

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

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

She has been careful and generally constrained throughout, offering her methodology as a jurist rather than stating a philosophy and at times couching her approach to her role as a judge in conservative language.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2022

He is unapologetic about couching the vaccine rollout as a battle and has worn combat fatigues ever since taking over the effort.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2021

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