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Meanings of couplet in English
Synonyms
Examples for "couple"
Examples for "couple"
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Sweden actually tested out six-hour work days a couple of years ago.
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The couple had not seen each other since their New Year holiday.
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A couple of those test cases have come back positive, she said.
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Our super-dooper social media GeekMoms posed a question a couple weeks ago.
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I only want to ask to ask you a couple of questions.
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The pair signed a shaky peace deal last year but violence continues.
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The pair were victims of gun violence, the RCMP said on Monday.
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Result: The mean scores tended to decrease as the line-pair values increased.
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The statement said the pair were no longer members of the group.
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The pair first went public with their relationship in January this year.
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These so-called 'news talk shows' have the attention span of a gerbil.
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Yet, how quickly we forget extreme events as the media attention-span wanes.
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In both cases, however, the projections span a wide range of possibilities.
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The SEC and DOJ probes span the securities industry, the company said.
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However, they couldn't brainwash him because his attention span was too short.
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Severe storm damage in Buller as locals brace for ongoing power cuts.
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With Trump, businesses should brace themselves for further battles ahead, King said.
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John Mayer should brace himself for Jessica Simpson's forthcoming memoir, Open Book.
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Lerato Lamola scored a brace, having helped Arrows take the early lead.
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All told, short-term investors should brace for a rocky summer, Gundlach said.
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However, Reuters' sources said a fresh bid from the duo is unlikely.
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In short, they are a power duo without peer in rock today.
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Indeed, some have suggested the duo were more than just good friends.
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The duo will continue producing projects for other record labels as well.
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The duo had previously started 20north.com, another e-commerce portal selling international products.
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The curtain of the Holy of Holies has been rent in twain.
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The veil of the temple of our humanity is rent in twain.
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The slavery question rent in twain the Methodist Episcopal and Presbyterian churches.
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It brake in twain at the hilt, and fell into the sand.
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The obstacle was rent in twain, and the significant gift was hers.
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In 1745 this church attempted to throw off the yoke of the
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There is peace in surrender and in taking His yoke upon us.
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England had never accepted the yoke; and she had everywhere seconded resistance.
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They have submitted to the English yoke; but they are Frenchmen still.
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London's part of a future that casts off the yoke of privatisation.
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They sang it in duet to the soft accompaniment which she played.
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A month after their heartwarming duet, Crosby died of a heart attack.
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But I did follow you in the duet, I was so anxious.
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His arrival had been unnoticed amid the tremendous resounding of the duet.
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It was, of course, the male member of the duet who began.
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The stanza containing the distich ends with a striking piece of realism:
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In this distich is comprised the noblest panegyrick, and the most important instruction.
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The opening distich indicates that the poem is addressed to Tuticanus.
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Garrick immediately said his epitaph was finished, and spoke the following distich extempore:
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Augustin caused to have written on the walls a distich, which ran thus:
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Victor Cruz brought his fiancée Elaina, and the twosome looks great together.
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With only light packs to burden them, the twosome marched up trail.
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The twosome had exchanged several messages over Facebook prior to their first tête-a-tête.
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The twosome passed, unaware of the danger that was so close.
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Nobody wants to be the non-pram pusher in a walking twosome.
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These questionnaires were administered to the dietician-patient dyad individually before the consultation.
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Stroke family caregiver and dyad intervention studies have reported a variety of outcomes.
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This dyad is then used as a sensitizer in a dye solar cell.
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He transformed the dynamic of the HBO-Showtime competitive dyad, remaking the network's No.
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We also examine whether the care-dyad relationship is associated with different hospice use patterns.
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They yield, on the hyper level, two triads, a duad, and a unit.
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That from the monad and the indefinite duad proceed numbers.
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Spiritual beings, emanating from God, are enveloped in the duad, and therefore receive only illusory impressions.
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From the monad proceeds an indefinite duad, which is subordinate to the monad as to its cause.
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The pillars are the same as in chlorine and its congeners, with a duad added at the base.
Usage of couplet in English
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The honored antiquity of it is preserved in the anonymous English couplet:
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I remember the following couplet in allusion to the King and himself:
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The heroic couplet in which it was cast was the standard metre.
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And there is all the lifetime of a proverb in the couplet-
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The first number in each couplet represented a line on page 186.
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So now, with terrible irrelevance, his mind caught at the simple couplet:-
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Callimachus wrote the following couplet as an epitaph on the celebrated misanthrope:
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So the couplet was frequently read as contrition over an irrecoverable loss.
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I heard him quoting on the hilltops of Mudros his haunting couplet:
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The last couplet but one was altered in a later copy, thus-
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A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet.
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Our being bathèd in light, as the fine dedicatory couplet has it.
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And this couplet of his, too, might be commended to the devotees:
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This is the couplet by which the group replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-
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One of them, a sort of rhymed dialogue, began with the couplet:-
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The ominous couplet springs from no misty legend, but from melancholy experience.
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United Kingdom
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