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[kuhp-uhl] / ˈkʌp əl /




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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

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

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

“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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