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  • present tense form of house (3rd person singular).
  • plural of house.
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houses



NOUN
business establishment
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NOUN
government body, sometimes elected, responsible for laws
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People who had to flee their houses during the devastating Stourbridge fires are starting to return home.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

Newly enriched Americans are bound to spend some of their windfall on new cars, yachts, houses and the like.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

John Lanchester: “Absolutely. Well, Jack and Kate are at friends’ houses with their friends, Michael and Tanya, and then there’s a young couple there as well.

From Slate Aug. 15, 2026

They found a foothold in Elizabeth, N.J., where they joined a close-knit group of other Holocaust survivors who began building houses, and then entire neighborhoods, that formed post-war suburbs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

“We heard on the radio in the car that a pipe burst on our street and all the houses got flooded. We rushed home as fast as we could. You could have been hurt.”

From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan



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