husband
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A few years later, my husband told me that I was no longer the executor.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Her husband was Abu Omar Saraqeb, who commanded a coalition of Islamist and jihadist factions that took control of Idlib in 2015 and was killed in an airstrike the following year.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
It was an unremarkable night after an unremarkable day in mid-July, and my husband and I were getting ready for bed in our Midtown Manhattan apartment when he let out a blood-curdling shriek.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Laura, a full-time carer for her husband and children, said: "You don't get any help, and this is the only place we come to for help."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
It is agonizing to be away from her daughter and husband, but this is how it is for now.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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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
When the possessive and paranoid Frank Ford runs into Margaret as she’s scurrying to meet his wife, Alice, he pointedly remarks, “I think, if your husbands were dead, you two would marry.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Bengali husbands and wives don't look directly at each other in the presence of others.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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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
He married Paula Schwartz in 1983, and with her he tenderly husbanded the land, planting an effusion of flora.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 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
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
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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
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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The Taming of the Shrew
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"The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare, Induction
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