PAIRED OFF Synonyms: 8 Similar and Opposite Words

paired off

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past tense of pair off

as in coupled

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The company has kept much of its design and manufacturing in-house, partly because the pieces are closely coupled and partly because suitable aviation components didn’t exist when development began.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Oct. 2026
Later that same year, the researchers coupled their thorium apparatus to an optical atomic clock, proving that these excited nuclei can serve as high-precision timekeepers.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026

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