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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

For now, Woods is concentrating on her career and cheering on her New York Knicks star husband.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Her husband adds, “We don’t have the luxuries you have in Havana, but if you like the quiet, we have plenty of that.”

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

“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

Proposed changes to the family code have included allowing women to stipulate in their marriage contracts that their husbands cannot take another wife.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Other members, including women, said wives were happier with the idea of their husbands whiling away the hours in a men-only environment rather than a mixed bar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 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

By now, the husbands who lived on other plantations had come for their Sunday-night visits.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

From there to the line, she husbanded her lead like someone who had been doing it all her life.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2018

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

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

China did this by building up domestic industries, developing alternative sources for scarce inputs and carefully husbanding its strengths in areas where they saw a chance to seize control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025

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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