husband
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"I would have left the city long ago had there been an option, but my son has his school, my husband and I have our jobs as well, which makes it practically impossible," she says.
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
Almost dead through starvation over that long, cold winter, she somehow stayed alive long enough to get me and the boys to the end of the war before she joined her husband.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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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
“There are a lot of women whose husbands are not going to work today.”
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Women declared elections and voted against their husbands.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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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
For centuries the Venetian republic husbanded its natural resources, keeping the lagoon from filling in through sedimentation and protecting its water quality.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 10, 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
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
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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
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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