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house

[hous, houz] / haʊs, haʊz /


NOUN
business establishment
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NOUN
government body, sometimes elected, responsible for laws
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Their wish is akin to hoping for a bigger house fire so they can receive a bigger payout from their homeowners’ insurance.

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 2026

Some Angelenos are now hiring so-called house managers to shoulder the minutia.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

Other big artists to have performed at the grounds of the listed country house venue include Led Zeppelin, Queen, Sir Paul McCartney, Metallica and, in 2022, Liam Gallagher as a solo act.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

She hired her house manager to allow her room for joy and to be fully present with her 6-year-old daughter instead of worrying about whether they were running low on laundry detergent.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

I forget my phone when Mom drags me out of the house to go for a hike along the gorge.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

About 60% of retirees who move after retiring went to a more affordable area, and pocketed capital gains from their houses, according to a 2023 Vanguard study.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

Some 300 houses have also been destroyed in the fire, the cause of which is unknown.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

French authorities have allowed champagne houses to make their bubbly with alcohol content of up to 15 percent, a historic first for a wine usually limited to 13 percent.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

“I hadn’t even stepped inside, but I could feel it—this place was different, and genuinely one of the coolest houses I had ever seen,” he writes.

From MarketWatch Sep. 9, 2026

“We flew down over houses and gardens by the calm river,” remembered duBeth.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

A younger left, as the statement says at the beginning: “We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities . . .”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

At Yangshuo Sugar House, a luxury resort housed in a former sugar mill, rooms start at around $300 a night.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Along the way, the company joined Station F, the vast tech start-up incubator housed in the Halle Freyssinet, a renovated rail freight depot in Paris.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

Official figures show the number of asylum seekers being housed in British hotels has halved in the past year, which the Metro reporting that this is the lowest its been since 2022.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

The first housed bathrooms, and the other, larger building was the visitor center.

From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III

Higher mortgage rates could cripple an already weak housing market.

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 2026

These huge halls - housing thousands of racks of computer servers - often use substantial amounts of energy or require large volumes of water to keep them cool.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

While the $250 million investment won’t solve severe shortages, housing veterans say it will help spur broader investments.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

The housing market is currently in a “stalemate,” she added, with buyers hitting their ceiling in terms of affordability and sellers not wanting to drop their asking prices further.

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 2026

The household servants—on call around the clock—lived close to the main house in a cluster of wooden cabins, some two stories tall and housing two or more families in tight quarters.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis




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