couple
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Take a couple who are currently 55 and 65, which accounts for about 8% of opposite-sex couples in the U.S., according to the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
In a statement, Kremlev’s press office said, “Mr. Kremlev and Mr. Trump Jr have a friendly relationship” and they first met “a couple of years ago.”
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
The couple adopted a black Labrador retriever several years ago, which is seen several times in the clip.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
After he started winding down his business in 2012, the couple considered moving to Annapolis, but property there was expensive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Calvin and I sink onto a couple of stools that sit in front of the open counter.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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You may call it an age-gap retirement or May-December planning — but when financial planner Jon Ulin helps couples who have a 10-year-plus age gap between spouses, he calls it a “two-clock problem.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
“The bottom line is that they need more money to retire than couples of a similar age,” said financial adviser Josh Norris, who practices in Jackson, Miss.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
There was the massive success of “Obsession,” a tale of love gone crazy that for some couples hit almost too close to home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Meena and Minal were adopted from different orphanages by two different Dutch couples.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
When we’re surrounded by other couples she turns to me.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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A rate hike, coupled with a hawkish message — or guidance pointing to a faster pace of tightening—could extend the yen’s rally and increase the risk of a broader unwind in yen-funded positions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
This aversion to excess is coupled with gratitude.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Electron spin and orbital motion become coupled, causing the energies of the Landau levels to evolve in a nonlinear way as the magnetic field changes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
The state is offering a business-friendly environment for day-to-day operations coupled with predictable corporate law for the strategic decisions that come before boards and shareholders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Now, as he waited at a traffic light, he had to admit that the drawing, coupled with the imaginative and dedicated coloring that Quang-ha had done earlier in the afternoon, was disturbing.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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“Asmodeus” is a bewildering incantation about the coupling of poetry and squalor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Their new strategy, recently reported in Nature, addresses a long-standing problem involving electron-transfer selectivity and could make a wide range of previously inaccessible coupling reactions possible.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
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
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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