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

houses



NOUN
business establishment
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NOUN
government body, sometimes elected, responsible for laws
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The prison is designed to hold more than 3,000 individuals and it currently houses low- and medium-security inmates, according to the CDCR.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

Hockney painted the palm trees, modern houses and swimming pools of Los Angeles and Santa Monica, falling in love with a region where he would live off and on for more than five decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

All residents were moved out, and houses and buildings were demolished.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

Most of them were Sudanese, Somali, Syrian and Eritrean families, whose addresses had been posted on social media and they were now scared to stay in their houses, she said.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

There was just enough light filtering out from the cave to show that there were no trees anymore, no houses, no path, no rocks, no clouds, no sky.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix



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