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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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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 signed up for an Elite Caribbean cruise with her mother in February, also taking her husband and mother-in-law.

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

By the time Joey graduates, Gertie Hornsbostel has already passed her screenings and moved with her husband to New York.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

Michelle Obama and Usha Vance were arguably more accomplished than their husbands were at the start of their political careers.

From Salon Jul. 29, 2026

We would talk about art, perhaps, or yoga, or our husbands.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

He married Paula Schwartz in 1983, and with her he tenderly husbanded the land, planting an effusion of flora.

From New York Times Mar. 15, 2019

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

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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