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house

[haus, hauz] / haʊs, haʊz /


NOUN
business establishment
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NOUN
government body, sometimes elected, responsible for laws
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Nor are today’s kids even likely to notice when it’s raining, which in Dr. Seuss’s book was the reason the kids were imprisoned in the house and unable to join in their usual outdoor frolic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

His resignation comes after Paraguay's lower house of congress voted in favour of pursuing an impeachment trial.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

De Meo, who has a reputation as a cost-cutter and turnaround specialist, took over in 2025 at Kering, which has struggled for years to turn around its leading fashion house, Gucci.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

After all, it’s been almost 30 years since her first stint at Fendi as an accessories designer, working alongside the five Fendi sisters and helping launch the house to cult status in the Y2K era.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Three seconds later I’m racing down the path behind my house.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Tech companies have paid for new fire houses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

In Wester Hailes, the fire service attended a fire in a grass area near houses in Murrayburn Park.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Pena's ruling party holds a majority in both houses.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

The director was originally concerned the scrappy little show with a cast of five wouldn’t play as well in larger houses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Nollie lived on Bos en Hoven Straat, a block of identical attached houses with white curtains and potted plants in the windows.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Huge posters depicting Saint Toribio and Leo XIV adorn the walls of the town hall and the main church, where a piece of the saint's tibia is housed as a relic.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Many of the 100 items selected from the 90,000 housed in the David Bowie Centre, which was built to contain the sprawling archive, have never been seen in public.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

The team used more than 15,000 graphics processing units on Frontier, one of the world's fastest supercomputers, housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

The ma’abarot housed many of the approximately 650,000 Jewish immigrants and refugees who arrived from across the Arab world in the years following Israeli independence in 1948.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

There were tall pointy antennas, and wide round antennas, and electronics housed in metal boxes.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

Prof Tunstall says the policy is partly responsible for making social housing scarcer, which meant more people competed for homes in the private rented sector, pushing up rents.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Critics argue it hollowed out the country's stock of social housing and contributed to today's housing crisis.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

He has previously compared trying to solve the housing crisis while continuing to sell social homes to "trying to fill a bath with the plug out".

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Still, the rally was driven more by cautious optimism than a thawing of the frozen housing market, with home builders still in an extraordinarily difficult position, analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

I have twenty-three minutes until the housing department closes.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron


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