couplings

plural of coupling

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Recent Examples of couplings 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
  • With masses equivalent to millions or even billions of suns, supermassive black holes are too massive to have been born from dying stars; instead, it is theorized that they are created when smaller black holes collide and merge, and a chain of progressively larger and larger mergers.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Scientists have used it to observe over 300 black hole mergers so far.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The project is meant to address reckless driving habits like passing in parking lanes and dangerous intersections.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • City officials encourage motorists at unmarked intersections to measure the allowable distance in terms of vehicle size.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At the University of Chicago (#13), almost all of the arts and humanities departments and some social science departments are pausing new PhD program admissions for 2026-2027, as the school studies consolidations and cost-savings.
    Emma Whitford, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Several other key markets, including Spain, Poland, Belgium, and Austria, also recorded consolidations of varying degrees in both volume and value.
    Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • No doubt Nelson was in trouble, but referee Robert Boyle called an end to the fight as Nelson ate some hard combinations.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The Glee crew has faced losses over the years — including the deaths of core cast members Cory Monteith and Naya Rivera — but various alums have found time to reunite in different combinations since the show ended.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Couplings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/couplings. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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