husband-to-be
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A person with direct knowledge of the matter told the outlet that Zacharia took the exam around the same time that she was planning a wedding and preparing to move to China with her husband-to-be.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
She was a Loyalist, and her American husband-to-be was an officer in the British army, so she may have assumed that her political sympathies would protect her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
During graduate school Mojsov also met her husband-to-be, immunologist Michel Nussenzweig, then immersed in medical school at New York University and a Ph.D. program at Rockefeller.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 8, 2023
After a few hours the boy confessed and the husband-to-be started his hunt for the square-cut diamond ring.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023
Felicia first notices her second husband-to-be when he pedals by her furiously on a clunky Russian bicycle, his hair vertical as a sail.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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