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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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Christine Morris, from Worksop, has been retired for eight years and lives on a state pension combined with a small private pension her late husband left her.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Some, like my husband, seek therapy as adults.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

Although Holmes and Evans have two children together and refer to each other as husband and wife, Holmes told People in 2025 that they were not legally married.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

My husband and I have lived in the same house for 23 years.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

She and her husband had managed to get their two small children to friends before their arrest, but she worried aloud all day about them and about Mr. Floor, who had tuberculosis.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

They also have in common husbands who are remote, albeit for vastly different reasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 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

Still, there’s clearly a lot of resentment among some Christian conservative women about husbands who don’t do chores.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

"Because of the people who've gone to fight and the families left behind with sons, husbands, children and grandchildren there. But these elections can't influence what will happen."

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

For the most part, husbands left wives, even physically or mentally ill wives, to run the home and raise the children as they saw fit.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

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

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

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

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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