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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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Your husband moved $60,000 of your joint savings into a brokerage account without telling you.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

She and her husband had always aimed for their son to enroll in kindergarten, after he earlier attended preschool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

But the "two most important parts of Helen", her heart and her mind, were in "good shape", her husband Phil Haines said.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Thirteen years ago her family, which includes her husband and their son, Joe, now 18, moved here from England.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

I wasn’t thinking about James as husband material.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Proposed changes to the family code have included allowing women to stipulate in their marriage contracts that their husbands cannot take another wife.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

"About 60% of husbands and wives in the sample said they exercised, but only about a third exercised together," Yorgason said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Abdullahi spoke about growing up Muslim and the tradition of women showing respect for their husbands and male family members by cooking for them and serving them first.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

The two female characters, initially wary of each other, are both on a hiatus from their husbands, and the German tourist eventually draws big crowds by performing magic tricks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Lillian and Paige Hedgepath joined their husbands in the den.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

For centuries the Venetian republic husbanded its natural resources, keeping the lagoon from filling in through sedimentation and protecting its water quality.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 10, 2019

He married Paula Schwartz in 1983, and with her he tenderly husbanded the land, planting an effusion of flora.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2019

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

Wang Lung allowed nothing to be bought and sold after the winter came except what he said, and he husbanded carefully all that they had.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

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

China did this by building up domestic industries, developing alternative sources for scarce inputs and carefully husbanding its strengths in areas where they saw a chance to seize control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025

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

She had been husbanding her own misery, shaping it, making of it an art and a Way.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison


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