couple with
phrasal verb
coupled with; coupling with; couples with
: to join or combine (something) with (something else)
The exhibit couples poems with paintings.
—usually used as (be) coupled withAn oil spill coupled with strong winds brought disaster.
The team's win, coupled with a loss by their rivals, put them in first place.
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In a confessional-style interview, Mykelti’s mom Christine Brown and her husband David Woolley, who were helping the couple with the move, describe the moments leading up to the severe weather.
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Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
The couple with the hiking poles were there, too, eating hamburgers and speaking too softly for Daria and Andrés to overhear.
—Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Both Rutland and Ramsey agree with that sentiment, adding that social media incentivizes people in spreading the word about their actions in a way that didn’t exist in the pre-internet era, coupled with the demand for more information quickly.
—Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
Eliza Varadi, a pediatrician in South Carolina, told me that the murkiness around insurance coverage, coupled with lower demand, has prompted her practice to start ordering COVID vaccines just one box at a time—each a batch of 10 doses—to minimize the potential for loss.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2025
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Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
The couple with the hiking poles were there, too, eating hamburgers and speaking too softly for Daria and Andrés to overhear.
—Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Both Rutland and Ramsey agree with that sentiment, adding that social media incentivizes people in spreading the word about their actions in a way that didn’t exist in the pre-internet era, coupled with the demand for more information quickly.
—Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
Eliza Varadi, a pediatrician in South Carolina, told me that the murkiness around insurance coverage, coupled with lower demand, has prompted her practice to start ordering COVID vaccines just one box at a time—each a batch of 10 doses—to minimize the potential for loss.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Couple with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/couple%20with. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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