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house

[haus, hauz] / haʊs, haʊz /


NOUN
business establishment
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NOUN
government body, sometimes elected, responsible for laws
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As early as 1913 she was designing heart-stopping gowns for their movies, which in turn brought renown to her fashion house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Dani and Tom Wooldridge worked hard to transform a 1970s house into a beloved family home after they bought it about seven years ago.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

“The house cost $385,000. With my savings, her $50,000 and a small mortgage, I was able to close.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

In July, Byrne was visiting a friend’s house when the man turned pale and passed out at the table.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

I’d known my way to Sandy June’s from my house in Owasso.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Traditionally, residents locate homes and buildings by giving directional descriptors, such as being on the “west side of San Antonio Street, 3 houses south of 12th Avenue.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

CGA plans to expand to houses of worship, stadiums and live events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Its data centre in Sasovo, meanwhile, houses two of three supercomputers used to develop the company's AI model.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

We wore KN95 masks—a modern version of the plague doctor beaks—and hid in our houses, and saw our hospitals overflow, and couldn’t be with our loved ones when they died.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

They covered entire mountains, obscuring the small houses at the very top.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

The court, housed in a shiny glass building on the outskirts of The Hague, employs around 900 staff from 100 nationalities.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Time Team's Prof Carenza Lewis said they had found traces of square features where it is thought people were housed, which "haven't been excavated before, anywhere".

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Our school would be housed in the Mountain State Spotlight newsroom, which had not been inspected as a school site.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Ghobadi has volunteered for a program that teaches fifth-grade students about the law, served on a community college board and fosters “several dogs a year to prevent them from being housed in crowded shelters.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

At the elementary school named in her honor, four grades were housed in each classroom.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Last year, the administration formed a task force to identify federal land that could be used to build affordable housing in an effort to address the nation’s housing shortage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Low valuations and strong fundamentals in subsectors like senior housing and data centers argue for a selective approach.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Such numbers have made housing Spaniards' biggest concern.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Most older Americans want to age in place, according to many surveys, and the notion of lowering their housing expenses while doing so is very attractive.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

The Court ruled in 2002 that, under federal law, public housing tenants can be evicted regardless of whether they had knowledge of or participated in alleged criminal activity.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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