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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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My husband and I share a pass to our local pool that I constantly forget at home.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

Police said the man's wife had called a neighbour after hearing one of her children crying while on the phone to her husband.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

Her husband recalled a favorable impression of Valadao after once meeting him.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

Shannon Wilson went on to found Kit & Ace and her husband served as an adviser to the business that sold sporty casual wear made from the fabric.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

We also marched past a section of the men’s camp, many of our group straining to identify a husband or a son among the ranks of shaved heads and striped overalls.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

The paper reports on three women who lost their "sons, husbands, and homes", while countless others wait for news about their missing loved ones.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

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

As she walked with her head down, she caught bits of their banter, which seemingly always had to do with sick children or lazy, ungrateful husbands.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

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

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

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

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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