1
as in junctions
a place where two or more things are united
the coupling between two train cars
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2
as in mergers
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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Recent Examples of couplings
Love Is Blind has produced a number of happy couplings since premiering in 2020.
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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
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
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This causes the PPy and PSS to separate into tiny regions, creating thousands of junctions where electrons and ions interact.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Oct. 2025
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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
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A lot of people are looking at mergers and acquisitions or looking at selling shares in their company.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
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Consumer giant Kimberly-Clark, which makes Huggies diapers and Kleenex tissues, is buying the company that makes Tylenol and Band-Aids in one of the biggest mergers of the year.—
NPR,
NPR,
4 Nov. 2025
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Snider navigates the complex intersections of addiction with class, sexuality, masculinity, and family bonds with skilled generosity in this powerful fourth collection.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Featuring women at the intersections of gender, age, disability, and disease, Pinjar is a nuanced illustration of this.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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Before that, were there additional unifications that occurred?—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
16 Sep. 2025
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As this weekly chart shows, NFLX has a strong history of breaking out from similar consolidations, often following through to new highs.—
Frank Cappelleri,
CNBC,
22 Oct. 2025
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The difference is that the majority of the shuttered newspapers last year was not the result of consolidations by big chains, but longtime independent owners who have given up — at places like the Wasatch Wave in Utah or the Aurelia Star in Iowa, the report said.—
David Bauder,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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The lacing details and bubble-hemline made for the perfect combinations of retro, yet modern.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
2 Nov. 2025
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Charmking Compression Socks These socks are available in more than three dozen color combinations with tons of patterns to choose from.—
Katie Jackson,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Couplings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/couplings. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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