husband
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Today Stóra Dímun is home only to Eva, her husband and the animals they tend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Legally, the $500,000 belongs to your husband, as long as he doesn’t commingle the funds in a joint account.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
A third woman - Shona Manderson, the only woman who was identified - accused her onscreen husband of sexual misconduct.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Mahmoud, 44, says she and her husband now spend their combined salaries on bread alone.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
Gertie receives the news of her husband in bits and pieces.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Finding well-off husbands is Elinor and Marianne’s only hope of returning to something like the comfort they have known.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 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
"I think men need to come into the conversation as well, and I'm not just talking husbands and partners, I'm talking sons," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 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
It was a good honeymoon, Grace always said, two weeks picking hops with her husbands family, and sleeping in a gypsy caravan parked in a farmyard.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
For decades, bootleg recordings of Miss Olivero’s voice, tenderly husbanded, passed from hand to covert hand among her legions of acolytes.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 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
She had been husbanding her own misery, shaping it, making of it an art and a Way.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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