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[hohm] / hoʊm /






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They don’t fall in and out of love, pick up groceries on the way home, read bedtime stories to their children or separate their recyclables.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Ann Widdecombe, the 78-year-old former Conservative minister and Reform UK spokeswoman, was found dead at her home in Devon last month with serious injuries.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

But we discovered those rare heroes on the block, the ones who make the city feel more like home.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

They jumped in their car and started racing back home.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Staring into the spiked, erratic flames, I see Ma in our new home, clasping her hands, delighted.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

In June, a wildfire on the eastern side of the city forced about 12,000 people to evacuate and destroyed around 14 homes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Such devices could support more efficient energy production and storage in homes and industrial facilities.

From Science Daily Aug. 10, 2026

Keegan Radomski is one of thousands who have had to flee their homes in Summerland, a town on the Okanagan Lake just south of Peachland.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

When the Eaton fire roared through the area, Gwendolyn Mathers, Tail Town’s executive director, and a group of volunteers evacuated the cats, who stayed at volunteers’ and foster cat parents’ homes for two weeks.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

If the film had been developed and examined that weekend, the scientists would have realized that there was enough heat energy coming from the mountain to power a thousand homes.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

In a conversation with the Bulwark’s Tim Miller immediately following Spanberger’s response, Buttigieg pointed out Americans’ anxieties surrounding affordability and homed in on a way to call out the GOP’s hypocrisy.

From Salon Feb. 25, 2026

That echoed a similar retreat in software stocks that took shape last week after investors homed in on Anthropic’s announcement that it was adding new legal tools to its Cowork assistant.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 11, 2026

They have homed in on whether the two survivors in the Sept. 2 attack should have been deemed out of action—and therefore no longer legitimate military targets.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 4, 2025

According to Shelter Cymru, that demand is fuelled through 94,000 households waiting to be homed, which is why the Chartered institute of Housing's Matt Dicks calls it a "deepening housing emergency".

From BBC Oct. 19, 2025

Pol- liver rode beside him, with the black dog standard in his hand and Gendry's homed helm on his head.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

The company is also homing in on fast-growing sports like Hyrox, offering a training camp for athletes to prepare for competitions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

While McLaren's Lando Norris, Mercedes' George Russell and Red Bull's Max Verstappen staged a frantic place-swapping scrap in the opening laps at Silverstone, Antonelli bided his time before homing in on Hamilton at the front.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

“Buyers from around the country — especially Texas, Vegas, Arizona and L.A. — are homing in on Orange County.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2026

But homing in on the annoying and self-defeating aspects of it misses the real story of how the movement changed American society, and the world, for the better—and how Lindy West did too.

From Slate Mar. 31, 2026

It was as if, upon seeing the hollow, I’d planted a sort of homing beacon in it with my eyes.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs




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