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house

[hous, houz] / haʊs, haʊz /


NOUN
business establishment
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NOUN
government body, sometimes elected, responsible for laws
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M researches a part in a mansion that has been meticulously art-directed to resemble the house of a family who in fact never lived there.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

I got a little gym in my house, and I do some exercises and then I do a big mug of tea.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

If my niece and nephew receive the house and SUV, I would probably ask them to donate half of the proceeds to the Red Cross.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

The house remained protected by temporary fencing on Saturday.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

The clatter of the falling cans sends the rat squealing and sets Mav barking from inside the house.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

The Leoben site, known as the Hinterberg plant, serves as the global headquarters and houses its research and development operations.

From Barron's Aug. 23, 2026

But the tech mogul still has a lot of property in California, the state that houses Meta’s main headquarters.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

The same can be seen around Kochav Hashahar, where the existing settlement has been expanded in multiple directions, with construction of roads, houses and a new settler outpost on surrounding land.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

The test will lie in what happens to Dubai’s Iran-linked exchange houses, money-service businesses, trade companies and beneficial-ownership networks, as well as the movement of cash and high-value goods.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

“What an improbably, unbelievable, unpredictable impossibility! Miss ten Boom, if all houses were constructed like this one, you would see before you a less worried man.”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Chloe was helped by Crisis who housed her in temporary accommodation and now has a place to study at film school.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

These data centers are housed in huge new buildings, stuffed with massive heat-generating computers and cooled by big banks of air conditioning.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

The lab, housed in an unmarked office in a D.C. suburb, had access to the government’s most sensitive databases, from suspicious activity reports to arrest records.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

One is housed at the Natural History Museum Denmark, while the other belongs to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

Next came a proposal for a $2 million “Bobby Fischer Museum,” to be housed in Iceland—or maybe it should be Brooklyn, the promoters mused.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

For America’s largest home builders, they are adding to their growing legal costs and weighing on their profits as they cope with a stagnant housing market.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

We’re currently facing a few new housing expenses: California property taxes plus the condo’s monthly homeowners association and utility bills.

From MarketWatch Aug. 23, 2026

By Aug. 13, however, the number had jumped to 54 households, “with new move ins happening nearly every day,” the housing department said in a report.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2026

It has also said mayors will get a "bigger say" over how housing funding is spent in their area, with the government directing national agency Homes England to focus on local mayors' priorities.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

The housing blogs of southern California teemed with stories of financial abuses made possible by these so-called thirty-year payment option ARMs, or adjustable-rate mortgages.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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