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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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Pursuing three doomed relationships, she hurtled from her 30s, still dreaming of a husband and child, to her early 50s, with severely constricted options.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star Jen Affleck is divorcing Zac Affleck, her husband of seven years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Mahmoud, 44, says she and her husband now spend their combined salaries on bread alone.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Pappas celebrated his New Hampshire win on stage with his husband.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Leah’s daughter, Lizzie, must have lived nearby with her husband, as she saw these younger relatives off and on.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

“Wicker” also spends a fair amount of time with the husbands to show how much pressure they feel at home too, light as their burdens often seem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

"About 60% of husbands and wives in the sample said they exercised, but only about a third exercised together," Yorgason said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

“There are a lot of women whose husbands are not going to work today.”

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

The ingredients—lumpen husbands; wives that look like overripe supermodels; enough Spandex for Christo to have wrapped the Cooperstown Hall of Fame—are all predictably and obviously engineered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The second is the legend of Aziz and her husbands.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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

Instead, he husbanded it, and Russia grew rich.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 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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