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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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She also cited her life experience as the daughter of immigrants, a single mother and a widow who was faced with the decision of whether to discontinue life support for her husband.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Related: ‘I’d rather be on a beach in Bali’: My husband resents my $8 million net worth.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

She was introduced to her husband the morning of their arranged marriage.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

"My husband was like, 'You're already there quite a lot, what's the matter with you?'" she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Positive that her new husband wouldn’t last long, she expected to leave her past as an abandoned wife behind and become the respectable widow, Mrs. Calvin Brown, within days.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

“There are a lot of women whose husbands are not going to work today.”

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

The ingredients—lumpen husbands; wives that look like overripe supermodels; enough Spandex for Christo to have wrapped the Cooperstown Hall of Fame—are all predictably and obviously engineered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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

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

Women came to comfort her, and their husbands paid condolence calls and hoped inwardly that she would soon move to another neighborhood and spare them the obligation of continuous sympathy.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

Others husbanded their deutschemarks like farmers girding against unforeseen misfortune.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2014

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

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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