husband
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Well past midnight on 19 July, as floodwaters surged through a village in India's northeastern state of Assam, Bornali Baruah and her husband were trying to save his 97-year-old mother.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The house where Rachel and her husband, Tyler Bardwell, who owns a chimney-sweep company, live didn’t burn in the wildfire, but houses just two blocks away did.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The business said it had launched an online fundraiser for Sanchez's husband, Andres Garcia.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
News of the pregnancy — and the couple’s relationship — surfaced a year after the death of Plaza’s husband, Jeff Baena, an independent filmmaker who directed her in the 2017 comedy “The Little Hours.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
"My husband has hunted since he was a boy," my mother said.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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Both of our husbands traveled for work a lot, so Scott and I spent hours together, especially before bedtime and during the “witching hour” with our little ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Discounted food and drinks, and one of my friend’s husbands acts as an Uber driver.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Michelle Obama and Usha Vance were arguably more accomplished than their husbands were at the start of their political careers.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
But over the years, 41 women directly followed their deceased husbands into the lower chamber.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
The husbands would just as soon have not gone to their in-laws, but they felt annoyed at the father's strutting.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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For centuries the Venetian republic husbanded its natural resources, keeping the lagoon from filling in through sedimentation and protecting its water quality.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 10, 2019
After his parents divorced, Folkert’s mom did yard work and landscaping and cleaned houses to earn money — which she husbanded with care.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2018
Tollett has not only husbanded the landscape; he has branded it.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 10, 2017
Others husbanded their deutschemarks like farmers girding against unforeseen misfortune.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2014
Even the wilderness is carefully husbanded there, and though that forest had been logged for centuries there were no waste places in it, no desolations of stumps, no eroded slopes.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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The glimpse reminded voters that Davis, who was husbanding his resources for a late advertising push, was still in the race.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
He lacks a strategy for husbanding his domestic political capital, without which he will be remembered mainly as an interruption.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
Allies allow you to project power while husbanding your own resources.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025
"The greater risk environment for financials leads to husbanding of capital and risk-taking, less and more conservative investing and lending, and inevitably, lower growth," said Blankfein, who also served as Goldman's chairman, told Reuters.
From Reuters ● Mar. 20, 2023
She had been husbanding her own misery, shaping it, making of it an art and a Way.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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The Taming of the Shrew
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"The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare, Induction
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