1
as in junction
a place where two or more things are united
the coupling between two train cars
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as in unification
the act or an instance of joining two or more things into one
credited with the coupling of several existing ideas into a single thesis
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as in sex
sexual union involving penetration of the vagina by the penis
the zoo announced that the giant pandas' most recent coupling was successful and that a cub was expected in March
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as in combining
to come together to form a single unit
at Pittsburgh, the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers couple to form the Ohio
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as in connecting
to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole
if you couple the two extension cords, the connection should be long enough to reach the next room
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Recent Examples of coupling
James Powel, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Getty Images The most famous sports/entertainment coupling since Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio is now official.
—Jeff Fedotin, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The steering coupling bolt may have been improperly tightened, allowing the steering coupling to loosen from the steering rack.
—James Powel, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
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Noun
The steering coupling bolt may have been improperly tightened, allowing the steering coupling to loosen from the steering rack.
—James Powel, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Getty Images The most famous sports/entertainment coupling since Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio is now official.
—Jeff Fedotin, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
For engineers, all this means coupling MLOps with DevOps by integrating retraining triggers, model validation steps and performance degradation alerts directly into deployment pipelines.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The steering coupling bolt may have been improperly tightened, allowing the steering coupling to loosen from the steering rack.
—James Powel, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coupling
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Nestled near the junction of the 405, 5 and 22 freeways is a sweet little oasis of calm and beauty called the Bowers Museum.—
Penny E Schwartz,
Oc Register,
20 Sep. 2025
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Pitt, driving, brought the car to a stop at the junction.—
Jay Glennie,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Sep. 2025
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None of Taiwan’s three main political parties—Lai’s Democratic Progressive Party, the opposition Kuomintang, and Taiwan People’s Party—support unification with Beijing.—
PHILIP H. GORDON,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Sep. 2025
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The Sheraton Hotel, located on Tara Boulevard in Nashua, has been designated as the unification site, police said.—
Sophia Compton , Elizabeth Pritchett , Bradford Betz,
FOXNews.com,
21 Sep. 2025
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The State Department suspended processing applications from Americans seeking to update their passports with a new gender marker in January, shortly after President Trump signed an executive order proclaiming the U.S. recognizes only two unchangeable sexes, male and female.—
Brooke Migdon,
The Hill,
5 Sep. 2025
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January saying that the federal government will only recognize two sexes: male and female.—
Sonam Sheth
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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The announcement was made in a press release for a unique event combining art and wrestling.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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Nationally, when combining both renters and homeowners, housing costs equaled about 21% of median household income in 2024, according to a SmartAsset analysis of Census Bureau data.—
Mike Winters,
CNBC,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The protocol sits on top of an open standard for connecting AI models to business systems—but focuses specifically on commerce and payments.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2025
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Officials also released an artist's reconstruction of the castle, featuring a stone tower and a causeway, or bridge, connecting two small islands.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The way people typically die in intersections is often because of head-on and T-bone crashes, which the roundabout design addresses, Bryson said.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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Pedestrians should cross Myrtle on the west side of the intersection.—
Shannon Tyler,
Idaho Statesman,
27 Sep. 2025
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Any disruptions in the merging of the SDF into the Syrian state raises the risk of an ISIS resurgence.—
Chris Massaro,
FOXNews.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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The road to social media was a hazy and confusing merging of these two types of websites.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
22 Sep. 2025
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Oh, and the elk, which are busy sparring and bugling as part of their annual mating ritual.—
Graham Averill,
Outside,
26 Sep. 2025
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Blue jay and green jay spottings in Texas The researchers attribute changes in weather patterns to the mating of the different birds.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Coupling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coupling. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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