couple
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“I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw a couple more hurricanes or tropical systems forming in the Central Pacific, South Pacific area,” said Kristan Lund, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
She gave up work to home-school her two youngest children, which the couple felt was necessary after Benjamin spiraled when he first went to school at age 4 in their London suburb.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Now, 16 years after the couple picked up the property, they are hoping to score an impressive return on their investment, asking more than double what they originally paid.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
"We had heavy rain a couple of weeks after he did the job, and it ended up like a waterfall coming down the wall," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
“But he broke it off. He divorced his wife anyway and married Blanche a couple of years ago.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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So at present most married couples can potentially leave £1m without paying inheritance tax.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
None of the thousands of couples I’ve worked with over the past 30 years have ever told me they wished they’d bought a fancier car.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
He and his “Fernwood” sidekick Fred Willard played one of primetime’s first gay couples on “Roseanne,” and Mull guest-hosted “The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson” 30 times.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
She told the Conservatives' annual conference that "nobody will ever pay inheritance tax on their family home" and couples will be able to leave an additional £1m tax free.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Little sketches of fairy couples dancing in the moonlight, gnomes peeking out from hollowed trees, a stone palace with turrets spiraling up from each corner.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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A shortage of lawyers, coupled with the complexity in immigration law, has also driven up the price for legal representation, said Toczylowski of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
This, coupled with a strong dollar, has prompted investors to pull money from emerging markets such as India in search of higher returns in dollar assets.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The benchmark refining margin is at unseen levels of around $40 a barrel, which, coupled with trading, will drive downstream earnings, she adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
"We have captured for the first time how electronic changes associated with proton transfer are coupled to reorganization of the surrounding solvent," said Biasin.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
I’ve got way too many secrets involving our newly coupled mutual friends, and I don’t trust that they won’t explode out of me with the right prodding.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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Takuma Makihara and Erik Szakiel, the co-first authors on the study, developed a method for coupling the microscopic mechanical resonator to a superconducting qubit.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
“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
I yell, looking in alarm first at the point where August disappeared, and then down at the bare coupling and ties that race beneath the cars.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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