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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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Tucker’s husband went down to her store, Care Tucker, because they thought someone had broken in.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

So, Molly and her husband took Eunice to a hotel on Lake Erie and checked into a two-bedroom suite.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

They allege that at the time, Clancy sent her husband, Patrick Clancy, out on errands so that he would not be home.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

“My husband was a good person, dedicated to his kids and to his wife,” Tovar said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

“I never thought I’d see anyone from our group again. We lost so many along the way. I lost my beloved husband at sea.”

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

For those whose husbands fought for the British in the jungles of places like Malaya and Borneo in the1950s and 60s time is now running out.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

In Botswana and South Africa, too, women are desperate for sons and husbands to return from a conflict many say they were duped into joining, as authorities warn recruiters are still active.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

When Thoreau visited the scene a few days later, he “found women who had already altered the gowns of the passengers—presumably including Fuller’s—that their husbands and sons had stolen from the beach.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Both women were openly wistful about having to leave that behind for one spent supporting their husbands in Washington, D.C.

From Salon Jul. 29, 2026

It was a good honeymoon, Grace always said, two weeks picking hops with her husbands family, and sleeping in a gypsy caravan parked in a farmyard.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

But he seemed diffident about them when we spoke and finally admitted that since the pandemic began all of his carefully husbanded nervousness has been consumed by life rather than work.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2020

After his parents divorced, Folkert’s mom did yard work and landscaping and cleaned houses to earn money — which she husbanded with care.

From Seattle Times Jan. 27, 2018

Tollett has not only husbanded the landscape; he has branded it.

From The New Yorker Apr. 10, 2017

For decades, bootleg recordings of Miss Olivero’s voice, tenderly husbanded, passed from hand to covert hand among her legions of acolytes.

From New York Times Sep. 8, 2014

Even the wilderness is carefully husbanded there, and though that forest had been logged for centuries there were no waste places in it, no desolations of stumps, no eroded slopes.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The glimpse reminded voters that Davis, who was husbanding his resources for a late advertising push, was still in the race.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 25, 2026

He lacks a strategy for husbanding his domestic political capital, without which he will be remembered mainly as an interruption.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

Allies allow you to project power while husbanding your own resources.

From Salon Mar. 5, 2025

"The greater risk environment for financials leads to husbanding of capital and risk-taking, less and more conservative investing and lending, and inevitably, lower growth," said Blankfein, who also served as Goldman's chairman, told Reuters.

From Reuters Mar. 20, 2023

Aragorn let them drift with the stream as they wished, husbanding their strength against weariness to come.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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