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have couched

  • present perfect of couch.

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Some have couched their opposition in policy terms.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 10, 2022

But they could have couched it by saying “this one is right up there with the best” without declaring it the clear No. 1.

From Seattle Times Aug. 9, 2021

Skeptics have couched their doubt in consideration of that possibility.

From Washington Post Sep. 2, 2020

Several stores have couched recent increases inside promotions, or nudged price tags up by a little under 10 percent, the point at which many shoppers’ radar picks up on the move.

From New York Times Apr. 23, 2011

The bear-tracker having reached this point, then leaves the track altogether, and makes a circuit round that part of the forest within which he suspects Bruin to have couched himself.

From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Zwecker, Johann Baptist