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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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But in August, a month afterwards, Gillam-Kirton and her husband found what appeared to be human bones in the burnt-out car in which her father died.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 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

If anybody was due for a husband to magically appear out of thin air, it was my soon-to-be-matronly aunt.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

They also have in common husbands who are remote, albeit for vastly different reasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 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

Finding well-off husbands is Elinor and Marianne’s only hope of returning to something like the comfort they have known.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 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

“Let us,” Lincoln declared, “make it as unfashionable to withhold our names from the temperance pledge as for husbands to wear their wives’ bonnets to church.”

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

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

Others husbanded their deutschemarks like farmers girding against unforeseen misfortune.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2014

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

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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