as in sofa
a long upholstered piece of furniture designed for several sitters
find yourself a place on the couch and make yourself at home
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as in to say
to convey in appropriate or telling terms
I'm trying to couch this delicately: I don't think we should date anymore
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Recent Examples of couch
Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
Amazon has plenty of spring-ready two-piece options that are comfortable enough for the couch and polished enough for lunch with a friend.
—Annie Blackman, InStyle, 4 Apr. 2026
Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
The way the story is being couched, Audi is going to build its new TT coupe whether Porsche forges ahead with the 718 EV or not.
—Byron Hurd, The Drive, 19 Feb. 2026
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Noun
There are more ways than lounging on your couch sipping Arnold Palmers to take it all in.
—Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
Amazon has plenty of spring-ready two-piece options that are comfortable enough for the couch and polished enough for lunch with a friend.
—Annie Blackman, InStyle, 4 Apr. 2026
Verb
Advocating for the homeless is deeply personal to the 41-year-old Oswego man, who in his younger days was forced to couch surf after getting kicked out by his father, and whose wife Tricia also experienced homelessness.
—Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
The way the story is being couched, Audi is going to build its new TT coupe whether Porsche forges ahead with the 718 EV or not.
—Byron Hurd, The Drive, 19 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for couch
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The Mex Cube sofa by Piero Lissoni is upholstered in a matching hue, and an Utrecht armchair offsets the earth tones with striking royal blue.—
Ludovica Stevan,
Architectural Digest,
5 Apr. 2026
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Curtis notes that five or six years ago, sofas were routinely piled high with pillows.—
Marisa Suzanne Martin,
The Spruce,
5 Apr. 2026
Verb
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After Queta turned in another standout performance in Sunday’s 115-101 win over the Toronto Raptors at TD Garden, Brown stumped for the breakout big man, saying, unprompted, that Queta deserves award consideration.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
6 Apr. 2026
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Some of the largest insurers in the world are creating data center specific avenues to manage the projects, Gallagher’s Harper said.—
April Roach,
CNBC,
6 Apr. 2026
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The young defender then crouched down and touched the ball with both hands, stopping it on the edge of the six-yard box.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Jinsu Elhance, a geospatial data scientist with SPUN, crouched to hammer the 7-inch-long metal cylinder into the soil.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
6 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Beltran said expressing those emotions can bring people together.—
Edie Kasten,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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The stateside Prime Video boss also expressed his conviction that the Super Bowl will eventually secure an exclusive berth on his company’s streaming platform, which suggests that Marine has read his John Maynard Keynes.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
10 Apr. 2026
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Things are scary right now, but the Plums are still high school girls, huddled together in a strange place, their adrenaline levels high and their supervision levels suddenly low.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2026
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The villagers huddled in their church for protection as Israeli warplanes pounded large swaths of southern and eastern Lebanon while Israeli troops stepped up a ground invasion and Hezbollah kept firing rockets at Israel.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Simply put, there’s no way that your husband won’t have to deal with this.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Apr. 2026
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At this point, as one aide put it, Tisza is Magyar, and Magyar is Tisza.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
Verb
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It’s phrased in a way that sounds perfectly logical.—
Mikey O'Connell,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Mar. 2026
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That echoed similar sentiments—though perhaps a bit more critically phrased—from fellow racers.—
Adam Ismail,
The Drive,
12 Mar. 2026
Verb
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State election code requires ballot measures be neutrally worded.—
Sierra Lopez,
Mercury News,
3 Apr. 2026
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If the Heat hadn’t worded the trade that way, then Miami would be at greater risk of the first-round pick conveyed to Charlotte being unprotected.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Couch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/couch. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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