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 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
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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
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
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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
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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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