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• n  a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
• n  a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects
• n  the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
  the casual couplings of adolescents
• v  bring two objects, ideas, or people together
• v  link together
• v  form a pair or pairs
• v  engage in sexual intercourse

• According to Bagemihl, the animal kingdom is a more sexually complex place than most people know--one where couplings routinely take place not just between male-female pairs but .
• It is probably no coincidence that Kyle Onstott, creator of that lurid depiction of the couplings between and within the races on a fictional slave-rearing plantation, was also the .
• There will be no lack of sex in the future, but our couplings will be geared more toward pleasure than procreation.

• yoke
• coupler
• mating
• pairing
• conjugation
• union
• sexual union
• match
• mate
• couple
• pair
• twin
• couple on
• couple up
• pair off
• partner off
• copulate

• uncouple

News & Articles

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• 'Devil' No More? BitTorrent 'Arthur Newman' Promotion Generated 2.7M Downloads
  By Brent Lang LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Arthur Newman" made headlines when it debuted last spring, but it wasn't for the film's onscreen coupling of Oscar-winner Colin Firth and rising star Emily Blunt. The media attention instead centered on an innovative marketing campaign driven by an odd couple pairing of a Hollywood studio and BitTorrent. The film flopped, racking up roughly $200,000 in ...
  June 19, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Johnny Depp Talks ‘Bumpy,’ ‘Unpleasant’ Breakup With Vanessa Paradis
  One year after Johnny Depp confirmed the end of his romance with the mother of his two children, French singer-actress Vanessa Paradis, he's ready to talk about the end of that 14-year coupling. "The last couple years have been a … Continue reading ?
  June 19, 2013 - omg!
• Coupled, with children
  Children are a natural by-product of your coupling. Your love may tomorrow bloom into the flowering faces of your children. It is important that we get the order right.
  June 18, 2013 - Macon Telegraph

Quotes

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• Pieter van Vollenhoven in San Jose Mercury News
  Van Vollenhoven said that from now on "the technical investigation will be directed at the functioning of the automatic pilot, the automatic gas control system, and their coupling to the radio altimeter."
• Willems in International Herald Tribune
  By coupling the sale (of LaSalle) with Barclays' offer, ABN Amro tried to present its shareholders with a done deal that cannot be separated from the sale of itself, and is therefore of primary influence,said presiding judge Huub Willems,...
• Winston Churchill in Science Daily (press release)
  Results were impressive for this initial 78-sample clinical study,said Dr. Bernard Churchill, chief of pediatric urology at the Clark-Morrison Children's Urological Center at UCLA and principal investigator. "By coupling UCLA's robust...