as in sofas
a long upholstered piece of furniture designed for several sitters
find yourself a place on the couch and make yourself at home
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to convey in appropriate or telling terms
I'm trying to couch this delicately: I don't think we should date anymore
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Recent Examples of couches
Brittany Loggins, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Jan. 2026
Our picks include chairs, tables, and couches for up to 80 percent off.
—Jacqueline Tempera, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
Wishbone dining chairs, green velvet couches, and leather barstools are ideal for someone who loves to layer textures and finishes to match their boho home.
—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Dec. 2025
The Spa The Spa at Albert Hotel is a relaxing and laid-back retreat, with a relaxation room, fitted with plush couches and stocked with tasty granola bars from The Pharmacy.
—Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2025
Estimates say there are more than 300 billion pennies already tucked away in piggy banks, cupholders, coin purses, couches, and anywhere else a copper Lincoln can hide.
—Addy Bink, The Hill, 30 Dec. 2025
The images that Buckman photographs — family and community members in bedrooms, on couches, under quilts— become compositions painted and stitched into vintage cloth.
—Olga Garcia-Mayoral, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
Lewis, the four-star true freshman quarterback out of Georgia, is slated to make his first collegiate start at Milan Puskar Stadium, the land where couches go to die.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2025
Whether made-to-measure couches, modular sectionals, or bespoke armchairs, custom furniture gives you infinite flexibility to adapt to your taste and the constraints of your space, personal preferences, and room layouts.
—Matt Emma, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Wayne Winegarden, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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There were two living areas with cozy couches and TVs, as well as a den that featured a whiskey library.
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Instead, the playbook is straightforward – identify a problem, then propose an overly restrictive governing scheme that couches the political favoritism as a beneficial expansion of the regulatory state.
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Slipcovered sofas have waxed and waned in popularity since the 18th century, and there's a good chance your grandma even had one (and, hopefully, the slipcovers were fabric instead of plastic).—
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Forward, the bow is adorned with two sofas that serve as a welcome lounge.—
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This time around, while Chambers remains turned away, Teasdale crouches with an unsettling smile and long fingernails, conjuring a skin-crawling suspense.—
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This is all before Raleigh crouches behind the plate for roughly three hours, calling 150 pitches a night and manning a 13-person pitching staff’s stuff, repertoire, and personality.—
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Windham says details of the building were drawn from inspiration by architect Eero Saarinen, who designed the Global Tech Center in Warren, Michigan.—
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Hill says Mikko, who is nonverbal, also uses an AAC device, which helps people who have speech or language problems to communicate.—
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While the team occasionally huddles, Rivers usually calls plays from the sideline.—
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In the series finale's last moments, the whole family huddles together at Claire and Phil's house to take one more group selfie.—
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Sam is a happy, 13-year-old who expresses himself through play.—
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At the 2026 Critics Choice Awards in Los Angeles, Timothée Chalamet expresses his love and appreciation for girlfriend Kylie Jenner in his Best Actor acceptance speech.—
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Michigan law states that everyone except adults in the back seat of a vehicle must be buckled.—
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Euronews states applicants also need to show proof of health insurance that covers them in Bulgaria and is valid throughout the Schengen Zone.—
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To this day, people come up to him and quote phrases his character used to utter.—
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In essence, the Iowa and West Virginia sports cases ask the court to rule whether a transgender girl – a person assigned male at birth who has transitioned to align with their identity as a girl or woman, as the AP Stylebook phrases it – is a girl or a boy.—
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What Wolfgang-Smith articulates is how the experience of reading O’Brian’s twenty books starts to blur into patterns that are instantly recognizable to anyone in a long term relationship.—
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Horror articulates trauma in a way that no other genre does, except fairy tale and parable.—
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“Couches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/couches. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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