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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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Following many discussions, John decided to focus on making memories as a husband, dad and friend rather than spending his final months as a patient.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

When I first met my late husband, I was shocked to learn that he was estranged from his mother.

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

They’d ask if my husband would fix something himself rather than hire someone.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

Concerned for justice or retaliation for a son or husband, rather than a whole battalion of sons or husbands?”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Proposed changes to the family code have included allowing women to stipulate in their marriage contracts that their husbands cannot take another wife.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 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

The two female characters, initially wary of each other, are both on a hiatus from their husbands, and the German tourist eventually draws big crowds by performing magic tricks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The husbands would just as soon have not gone to their in-laws, but they felt annoyed at the father's strutting.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

Instead, he husbanded it, and Russia grew rich.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2017

Others husbanded their deutschemarks like farmers girding against unforeseen misfortune.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2014

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

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

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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