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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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When she married in the US many years later, she and her Italian husband took the name Prevost, which had been her mother's maiden name.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Jeanne de Montagnac, 29, stood by her husband and two-year-old daughter, perched on his shoulders with a telephone number scribbled in biro pen on her arm.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

My life, too unconventional for a husband and kids, would be lived out of suitcases, a dog-eared passport forever in my back pocket.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Related: ‘I don’t begrudge them their money’: My husband and I have friends who spend, spend, spend.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

Gertie receives the news of her husband in bits and pieces.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Counselling is also offered as well as information on how partners and husbands can support them.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Photos of sons, daughters, uncles and husbands pepper Chinese social media, shared by people hoping for news about relatives missing since deadly floods on the border with Nepal last week.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

It’s women bringing their boyfriends, women who now bring their husbands, couples coming together, and I love it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

The health, safety and well-being of husbands, wives, sons and daughters aren’t secondary considerations to us; they are the bedrock on which every mission rests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

They work with their husbands and sons, whether fighting in the army or sitting quietly on stony slopes to watch the border.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

As it is, I like to think of Dr. Lecter in his Maple Leafs warm-up jersey, losing his carefully husbanded gourmet meal to the little boy.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

But he seemed diffident about them when we spoke and finally admitted that since the pandemic began all of his carefully husbanded nervousness has been consumed by life rather than work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2020

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

Wang Lung allowed nothing to be bought and sold after the winter came except what he said, and he husbanded carefully all that they had.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

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

Aragorn let them drift with the stream as they wished, husbanding their strength against weariness to come.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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