Used in a Sentence

coupled

How to use coupled in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for coupled.

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They're tightly coupled. While short bursts of endorphins will make you feel better, the effect will be temporary.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

joined together especially in a pair or pairs

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of coupled gathered in one view.

adjective

joined together especially in a pair or pairs

adjective

connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for coupled.

adjective

connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks

Example sentences

1

They're tightly coupled. While short bursts of endorphins will make you feel better, the effect will be temporary.

2

This is exactly the curiosity that people who enter the InfoSec world feel, coupled with real skills. Often too much skills and too little to do to start.

3

Oh and they de-coupled foodstamps from corporate welfare now so expect this to become more insane over the rest of the decade.

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That's bad enough, without it being coupled to the fact that facebook is completely free and optional and no one is forcing you to use it.

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Of course, the problem is HBO is just too tightly coupled to big cable. They're one of the main attractions, and as such the kickbacks they get are tied to contracts that prevent them from wresting their content to any great degree.

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The proper tool to address this problem is shame coupled with better education. When your niece tries to be cute by saying she's too pretty for math, you give her the disdainful disappointed look that says this shit won't fly and then ask her what she's having trouble with.

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Qualcomm devices have a hardware random device, which when coupled with the qrngd daemon feeds the kernel entropy pool. In normal operation of Android, I never see this pool actually get low unless running the qrngtest tool, in which case qrngd just fills it right back up.

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A four paragraph website outlining the vision coupled with a simple way for customers to engage directly with the CEO of the company. Notch understands "Minimum Viable Product"

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Point 2 above, coupled with the complaint's wild swinging out at multiple parties on dubious theories of liability, is the most probable explanation of why there is no lawyer representing the plaintiff in this action. 4.

10

If the definition of letting them be kids is shutting off the TV, on sunny days pushing them out the door to go play in the dirt, and on rainy days taking them to the library, coupled with spending time to encourage and support them in the interests they develop and express. The key is engagement.

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Even today, there are still biologists who assert the formation of intelligent life is tightly coupled to our specific brand of brain and should hence be considered a huge accident. Yet we see the formation of minds in a lot of places, and they can be almost arbitrarily far removed from the human brain.

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Needing to create work for themselves, these hipsters, coupled with managers who need to appear to be leading something seen as "productive", start on a UI redesign. Often this is done without the involvement or insight offered by the existing developers of the product, nor any of the product's users.

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This, coupled with the detailed explanation and rationale for the change, the explicit deadline, seems to me like an exemplar of good practice for free software community projects. It is not surprising that this came at a time when Debian is also discussing init systems, and hopefully the same well-thought approach will work there too.

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If, on the other hand, you show them an idea coupled with your work confirming that a good scalable market exists, hold on! The market opportunity will either be stolen or you'll have someone all over you wanting to become an investor or participate in some manner in the opportunity you identified.

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Groups with high common ground and loosely coupled work, with readiness both for collaboration and collaboration technology, have a chance at succeeding with remote work. Deviations from each of these create strain on the relationships among teammates and require changes in the work or processes of collaboration to succeed.

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Offering an open letter of advice coupled with biting critique, rather than making a private offer, does strike a certain self-serving tone. While I generally love seeing how designers would, free of real-world constraints, re-imagine popular sites, maybe the authors didn't choose the best tone or format for their submission.

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But beyond that, it's a remarkably heteronormative idea; it comes coupled with an inherent mental model that everyone is heterosexual. Consider: Is a male homosexual who hangs out with the other guys on his team going to be unavoidably attracted to every single one?

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I think what killed software entrepreneurialism for good was the rise in housing prices, coupled with the student debt epidemic and the cost of health insurance. Unless independently wealthy, no one can actually afford to "bootstrap" in these locations, so true entrepreneurial activity has been replaced by VC-istan careerism.

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The average tenure of the Amazon engineer is embarrassingly short, and coupled with the company's notorious lack of documentation, it means that technical debt is accumulating at an alarming rate. There are constantly projects to completely revamp/redesign some portion of Amazon's systems.

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Or insist that it be coupled with other considerations that give you benefits apart from your normal final pay, etc. This sort of negotiation can make these clauses a big nuisance from the employer standpoint and may cause the employer simply to drop the clause.

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A clean sheet engine design is very complicated indeed - it's a very high dimensional, highly coupled optimisation problem, so a known good starting point is a very valuable thing to have. Indeed the turbopump, which is one of the hardest bits of a rocket engine, is made by Barber Nichols, who made the turbopump for Fastrac and who make the turbopumps for the Merlin engines [2]. I've heard rocket engineers describe rocket engines as turbopumps with some extra plumbing. Perhaps a slight exaggeration but not far off, especially since their design is so tightly coupled and dependent upon overall engine parameters.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use coupled in a sentence?

They're tightly coupled. While short bursts of endorphins will make you feel better, the effect will be temporary.

What does coupled mean?

joined together especially in a pair or pairs

What part of speech is coupled?

coupled is commonly used as adjective.