👉 In linguistics and semantics, a "couched" statement is a statement that is not explicitly stated or indicated. It can be described as if it were implied by something else, but it's not clearly stated or specified. For example, if you are reading a newspaper article, the sentence "The sky is blue" is couched because it is implied from the context of the article. However, if you read the same sentence without knowing that it is couched, it would still be considered
