couplings

plural of coupling

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of couplings Love Is Blind has produced a number of happy couplings since premiering in 2020. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025 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 The output is ideally the ground state, the configuration of spins that minimizes the energy given that set of couplings. Jeremy Hsu, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for couplings
Noun
  • Surprisingly, cognitive decline in healthy aging isn't as simple as neurons dying, but rather neurons losing their spark at the synapse, the tiny junctions where signals leap from cell to cell.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Four rotors, mounted at wing junctions, provide lift for vertical flight and stability during transition.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Analysts took the call as a chance to ask the company’s new CEO, Steve Angel, about mergers and acquisitions.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Arment added that Rocket Lab’s clean balance sheet provides ammunition if the company chooses to pursue any more mergers or acquisitions.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Manually override the system when approaching intersections, crosswalks or railroad tracks.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Lincoln Street at 14th Avenue remained closed, but other intersections along Colfax Avenue and Broadway had reopened.
    Katie Langford, Denver Post, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Before that, were there additional unifications that occurred?
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There's heartburn in the Terre Haute area as school consolidations come to Vigo County after thousands of students have left the area in recent years.
    Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Looking back over more than two decades of price history, HD has a consistent tendency to emerge from long consolidations with powerful follow-through rallies lasting months — and often years.
    Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Forgiving spin from a leader who’s cognizant of the plight of his line, which, coming into Sunday’s game, had run out 173 unique combinations, second-most in the NFL, according to the CBS broadcast.
    Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Coach Paul Maurice is mixing and matching and switching and swapping with his makeshift forward lines to find any combinations that might work.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025

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“Couplings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/couplings. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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