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couples

noun as in pair of things

verb as in join two things

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However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.

In other words, Florida clerks were no longer allowed to turn gay couples away.

Dance instructors run a lucrative trade offering private lessons to couples before their wedding receptions, typically the tango.

If couples can seem smug and self-enclosed, the married single represents an even more irritating manifestation of that.

Over the next six months hundreds of same-sex couples married.

Cabs containing couples rolled by, disappeared towards north and south, disappeared into the darkness.

The same fact is illustrated in the countenances of aged couples, especially in country places.

When we visited the place there were only a pair of these fortunate beings, and their number rarely exceeds three couples.

The new books wandered in a year after the rest of the world had forgotten them, and rarely in couples.

Let one receive the guests, another arrange the sets, a third introduce couples, and a fourth pair off the talkers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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