couple
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The force said it passed on the information to the royal couple but did not share it with other law enforcement agencies.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
It’s hard to imagine handing your home over to another couple or family and settling into a smaller space.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
He had furloughed people who handled such things during the partial government shutdown over immigration, and since he famously lacks patience, Hegseth sent a couple of flunkies to retrieve the historic object immediately.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
When I called Scott Aaronson and Dana Moshkovitz, a married couple of theoretical computer scientists at the University of Texas, I learned why it’s so hard to predict the pace of progress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Best of all, children, there is a stream only a couple of hours ahead, where Papi and I used to sit and have a picnic.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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A marriage story weighty enough to bear two fascinatingly complex couples, it explores a web of isolation and desire knotted with the divisions and woes of society today: class, labor, media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Roth conversions make the most sense for married couples with large IRA balances, because after one spouse dies, the other will have to pay taxes as a single person on the same amount of money.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
Lab-grown diamonds are now more popular than natural diamonds for engagement rings, according to Zola’s 2026 Wedding Style Report: 54% of couples opt for lab-grown, while only 34% choose natural diamonds.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
This is a drama of the entanglement of two couples from disparate classes—evident enough from Sang-woo’s Porsche—told with unrelenting attentiveness across more than 2 1/2 hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
I hadn’t realized how much of an issue this was until I tried thin-slicing couples myself.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Maradona died at age 60 from a cardiorespiratory crisis coupled with pulmonary edema.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
We believe that stronger geophysical and meteorological monitoring, coupled with new research and communication channels, is the first step.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
“We believe declining enrollment in computer-science programs, coupled with renewed demand for technical talent, could eventually create a shortage of qualified graduates and expand employment opportunities.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Weak earnings coupled with a fine has analysts pressing executives about whether there is more pain to come.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Convinced that he alone remembers those days, and wants them back, aware of what it looked like but not at all of what it felt like, he coupled himself elsewhere.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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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
To overcome this tradeoff, the MIT researchers developed antennas with reduced crosstalk that can be positioned close together without strongly coupling.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
Experiments show that the motility of bull sperm is decreased by dinitrophenol, which interferes with the energy- coupling mechanism with inevitable loss of energy.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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