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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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Stacey lives in Brooklyn with her husband and hound dog.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Spalding’s husband, Matthew, is that graduate school’s dean, and Samson has taken classes with one or both of them, according to a State Department official.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2026

“The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Angie Katsanevas and her husband, Shawn Trujillo, are calling it quits.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

The hospital said the girls' mother, 34-year-old Jenitar Na'amoana, and her husband Jortham, already had four children and were taken by "immense surprise" when told to expect quadruplets.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

With one hand on Jonathan’s shoulder and the other around her husband, Mrs. Palmer managed to hop out of the lake on one foot.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

“That women have property rights independent of husbands is an old Iberian tradition,” Hayes-Bautista told me.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

“I realized a lot of wives were wishing their husbands were there and they weren’t,” he said.

From MarketWatch Jun. 23, 2026

"For everyone here, it's not easy. I see what my friends are going through. They're watching their husbands change."

From Barron's Jun. 15, 2026

In some clips, women wrap their husbands in angel wings, symbolically shielding them from harm.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

For the most part, husbands left wives, even physically or mentally ill wives, to run the home and raise the children as they saw fit.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

He married Paula Schwartz in 1983, and with her he tenderly husbanded the land, planting an effusion of flora.

From New York Times Mar. 15, 2019

From there to the line, she husbanded her lead like someone who had been doing it all her life.

From The Guardian Sep. 7, 2018

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

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

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

Aragorn let them drift with the stream as they wished, husbanding their strength against weariness to come.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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