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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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Thirteen years ago her family, which includes her husband and their son, Joe, now 18, moved here from England.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

In 1980, she launched her own costume brand with her husband, called Genesis Mask Band.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Nearby, her husband Brian said he was "a little disappointed."

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Lately, she and her husband have cut down on nonessential spending to save money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

She wrote politely and humbly, conducting herself as her husband would have expected.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

"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

Still, there’s clearly a lot of resentment among some Christian conservative women about husbands who don’t do chores.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Suvorova writes about girls in school accusing her mother of being a gold digger, intentionally choosing rich boyfriends that would eventually become rich husbands while they lived in poverty and couch surfed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

These days, though, just as many girls chose their own husbands.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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

For decades, bootleg recordings of Miss Olivero’s voice, tenderly husbanded, passed from hand to covert hand among her legions of acolytes.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 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

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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