couch potato

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Recent Examples of couch potato There are big, small, fluffy, old, hiking buddy dogs, couch potato dogs and puppies. Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Aug. 2025 Although some bully-type dogs tend to be couch potatoes, most are athletic. Lisa Bloch, Mercury News, 22 July 2025 However, even couch potatoes who began to exercise consistently saw a benefit — a 22% drop in the risk of early death, the study found. Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 10 July 2025 The number of active travelers over 60 is growing at a rapid pace as many seniors are shunning the perception of being couch potatoes. Roger Sands, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for couch potato
Recent Examples of Synonyms for couch potato
Noun
  • Snails can look like little elephants, slugs can look like fish, and worms can look like swimming chandeliers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The reflective foil discourages unwanted insects and pests like slugs from approaching and harming the plants, but actually helps to attract butterflies.
    Darcy Lenz, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In military settings, electronic warfare (EW) units use powerful transmitters to broadcast noise or false signals on the same frequencies, overwhelming or confusing the drone’s receiver.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
  • On September 24, airports in Denmark and Norway were closed after drones appeared in the sky.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Many springs feature a visible boil at the water surface above the spring vent, crystal clear water, submerged grasses waving in the current, and a range of fish, turtles, snails and other aquatic animals hiding in the grasses.
    Christopher F. Meindl, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In our lives how many things are like the snail, never thought of?
    Victoria Chang, The New York Review of Books, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Cora planned for his players to test the right fielder’s bum elbow — the Red Sox always attack pinstriped vulnerabilities on the basepaths — and sure enough Nick Sogard turned a single into a double in the seventh because Judge can’t throw the ball.
    Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Among them are South Korean’s CIA Director (Ryoo Seung-bum) and the Japanese Deputy Minister of Transport (Takayuki Yamada).
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025

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