husband
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Tucker’s husband went down to her store, Care Tucker, because they thought someone had broken in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Molly and her husband are planning to take Eunice on another Elite cruise, this time to Alaska, later this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
They allege that at the time, Clancy sent her husband, Patrick Clancy, out on errands so that he would not be home.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Remini and her former husband, Angelo Pagán, announced back in 2024 that they were divorcing after nearly 30 years together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
She saw a vision bathed in red of her husband flirting with the housekeeper in the alley of the hotel they were going to on vacation.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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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
She says that often successful writers are supported by wealthy husbands, by grants, by residencies.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 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
Our husbands would be really different, of course, but they’d like each other a lot anyway.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
But he seemed diffident about them when we spoke and finally admitted that since the pandemic began all of his carefully husbanded nervousness has been consumed by life rather than work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2020
From there to the line, she husbanded her lead like someone who had been doing it all her life.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2018
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
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
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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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The Taming of the Shrew
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"The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare, Induction
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