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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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A third woman - Shona Manderson, the only woman who was identified - accused her onscreen husband of sexual misconduct.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

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

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

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Jordyn Woods hopes children are in her future with husband Karl-Anthony Towns, but the newlywed is taking her time before starting that chapter.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

I believe she might know a thing or two—about how my daddy passed away and about how Aunt Kitty’s husband died, too.”

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

"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

"I think men need to come into the conversation as well, and I'm not just talking husbands and partners, I'm talking sons," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

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

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

The two female characters, initially wary of each other, are both on a hiatus from their husbands, and the German tourist eventually draws big crowds by performing magic tricks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Women did not leave their husbands, and they certainly did not run off with their husbands' nephews.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

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

Our research found Jersey trusts which husbanded billions.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 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

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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