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n. The combination or union of two things.

v. Present participle of pair.

n. The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples.

n. See To pair off, under Pair, v. i.

n. In deliberative assemblies, a practice by which two members belonging to opposite parties agree that both shall be absent for a specified time, or that both shall abstain from voting on a particular question, so that a vote is nullified on each side. Also called pairing off.

n. Impairment; injury.

n. the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

n. the act of grouping things or people in pairs

"JV points out the pairing is a familiar play on the "boy and his alien" trope that's touched us through the years: See also E. T, Neverending Story, most of the works of Hayao Miyazaki, and any other of about a million fantasy stories and comedic pairings that've seen a human bond with a non-human for friendship and adventure."

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