husband
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Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, begins with Meghan, along with her husband Prince Harry, walking along a country path as she turns and says "come on, you".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Neeleman’s husband is the son of JetBlue Airways’ billionaire owner.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
A few years ago, Drolma and her husband branched out into opening a campsite and a homestay for tourists, seeking to capitalize on Shangri-La’s tourism boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, were not home at the time, according to Eduardo Negrón, a spokesperson for Harris.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Aunt Tess had said I needed to do something with my life, that a girl shouldn’t rely on her parents for the first half of her life and a husband for the rest.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Parents raised sons to be husbands and fathers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Photos of sons, daughters, uncles and husbands pepper Chinese social media, shared by people hoping for news about relatives missing since deadly floods on the border with Nepal last week.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
It’s women bringing their boyfriends, women who now bring their husbands, couples coming together, and I love it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 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
She had never had any children, and each of her three husbands had slunk off in turn during the night, never to be seen again.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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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
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
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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
He lacks a strategy for husbanding his domestic political capital, without which he will be remembered mainly as an interruption.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
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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The Taming of the Shrew
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"The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare, Induction
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