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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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But none of that has brought her husband Sudipto Bhattacharya any closer to knowing what happened after that final message.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

This week Quentin Fottrell — the Moneyist — helped a MarketWatch reader whose husband is the executor for his father’s estate, which includes his house, in which two people have been renting rooms.

From MarketWatch Aug. 28, 2026

Fadila Efendic, whose son and her husband were killed in July 1995, said Mladic's death brought "neither a joy nor a particular sadness".

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

It also was where she met her husband David Gregory, who was covering the trial for NBC News.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

The spirit of her husband, the assassinated president, appears with his hands resting on her shoulders.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

The health, safety and well-being of husbands, wives, sons and daughters aren’t secondary considerations to us; they are the bedrock on which every mission rests.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 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

According to the US House of Representatives in 2025, 45 widowed women have directly succeeded their late husbands in Congress - 38 in the House and eight in the Senate.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

A group of our husbands escorted her home.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

As it is, I like to think of Dr. Lecter in his Maple Leafs warm-up jersey, losing his carefully husbanded gourmet meal to the little boy.

From New York Times Oct. 21, 2021

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

Instead, he husbanded it, and Russia grew rich.

From The Guardian Feb. 22, 2017

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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