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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
Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
Islanders couple up while looking to survive re-couplings and avoid being dumped from the villa.
—Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Jared Weiss, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
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
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Noun
The first act is formulaic and its plot direction and obvious romantic couplings are forecast from the start.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
Islanders couple up while looking to survive re-couplings and avoid being dumped from the villa.
—Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
Forcing athletes to find new affordances within various constraints makes perception-action coupling more efficient.
—Jared Weiss, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coupling
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Canal supporters identified the break in the Appalachian Mountains at the junction of the Mohawk River and the Hudson as a propitious place to dig a channel to Lake Erie.—
Christine Keiner,
The Conversation,
15 Oct. 2025
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Crossing a saddle into Sterling Canyon, the trail ends at the junction with Vultee Arch Trail.—
Roger Naylor,
AZCentral.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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Tommaso di Lampedusa’s novel, which looks at the unification of Italy from the perspective of a 20th-century writer, had a modernity that interested me.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025
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Beijing claims Taiwan as its own territory and has vowed to pursue unification—by force if necessary.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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Ironically, stiff upper lips seem to have almost vanished as both sexes burst into tears if anything either lovely or lousy happens to them.—
Jilly Cooper,
Vogue,
7 Oct. 2025
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The differences in longevity between the sexes were much more pronounced in the wild than in zoos for both mammals and birds, as there were fewer stressors, such as harsh climates and predators, in zoos, the study said.—
Amarachi Orie,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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The bag is made of leather covered with gold leaf, with leather marquetry combining five different textures to render the blooms.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
21 Oct. 2025
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Few companies have more experience combining adventure and comfort than A&K, one of the pioneers of high-end safari travel.—
Jeri Clausing,
AFAR Media,
21 Oct. 2025
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The staircase, inspired by one in Tina and Michael Chow’s legendary apartment on Sutton Place in New York, spirals from the basement to a mezzanine level, connecting the apartment’s three floors.—
Amir Capogrossi Badreddine,
Architectural Digest,
21 Oct. 2025
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The appointments were so sudden that Scharf, at his first commission meeting on July 10, apologized for not connecting with any of his fellow commissioners ahead of time, noting his appointment had happened the night before.—
Emily Goodin,
Miami Herald,
21 Oct. 2025
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On the intersection corner where crowds were dense, Tom Angelo, 64, played his red accordion as a background track to the chaotic protest.—
Stephanie Murray,
AZCentral.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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According to Reuters, 58 reports describe Teslas blowing through red lights, drifting into the wrong lanes and even crashing at intersections.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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The steps to the lawn in this couple's yard reflects their merging of styles.—
Miranda Crowell,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Oct. 2025
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Andromeda is a vast spiral galaxy formed from the merging of multiple smaller galaxies billions of years ago.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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Since these ticks are parthenogenetic, meaning an individual female can lay eggs without mating, essentially cloning herself, male ticks are rare.—
Chad Murphy,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
14 Oct. 2025
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This pattern, called assortative mating, means that when parents with overlapping genetic risks have children, those risks can combine and accumulate.—
Santhosh Girirajan,
The Conversation,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Coupling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coupling. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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