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Tell me you weren’t standing on your couch watching that beautiful madness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

There needs to be a really good hangout spot, so the couch needs to be super comfortable, and if the couch isn’t comfortable, no one wants to stay there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Your only remaining responsibility is to slice a lime for the bowl — and perhaps one for the drink you’ll carry back to the couch, where the air conditioner is already hard at work.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

Dressed in a top hat and tails, he carried the singer across the stage to a couch where she changed outfits before performing I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

“Let him try,” Dad said from the couch, where he sat watching baseball on TV.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

"I had trouble standing up from low chairs and deep couches without someone offering me an arm," she said.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Americans from both camps, along with Gannon, gathered at Tahnoon’s McLean mansion, and took their seats in his living room couches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Instruments were replaced with couches; the control room is now a walk-in closet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

No particular couch sticks in my memory, so perhaps these were neutral couches awaiting my emotions to spill out over them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

The house smelled like musty old couches and unfinished wood.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

Asked by CNN whether he would condemn the group and what they stand for, and whether he would urge President Donald Trump to do the same, Burgum couched his language carefully.

From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026

But for Nihill, that joke only works if it’s couched within the larger context of the cross-cultural connections, including the fact that Jamaican-born political activist Marcus Garvey drew upon the Irish independence movement for inspiration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

Walz couched his decision as a way of putting the people of Minnesota first.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2026

Instrumental and vocal profiles are sharp, clean and comfortably balanced; Lennon’s backing group, Elephant’s Memory, sounds solid and powerful, and the shows are couched in a vibrant ambience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

The Knight of Flowers saluted the king, rode to the far end of the list, and couched his lance, ready.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Organizations have recognized that couching fears in imaginative play is productive.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2023

Beside trepanning, the more radical surgeries included mastectomy, amputation, hernia reduction and cataract couching.

From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2023

Climate research often frames the implications of warming in terms of its economic impacts, couching damages in monetary terms that are sometimes used to suggest that small increases in average temperature can be managed.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2023

“I’m very direct, and the people on my board appreciate that about me. In the country, there’s a lot of couching and people trying to say something and not wanting to be aggressive about it.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2022

A greyhound, as white as ivory, couching on its hocks and elbows, its tail curved into the bony sickle of the greyhound, watched the old man with the doe-soft eyes of pity.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White