husband
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Marti Funk, Funk’s wife of 40 years, told Florida’s Ocala Gazette that her husband died Tuesday while in hospice care.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
The woman -- asking to be identified by her surname, Jeong, for privacy reasons -- said she could not afford to cool the one-room home shared with her husband and disabled daughter.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Eugenie is a director at the art gallery Hauser & Wirth in Mayfair, and her husband has worked in hospitality and marketing.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Taylor-Joy, who splits time between London and Los Angeles with her American musician husband, Malcolm McRae, talked about overcoming insomnia, greeting gorillas and meditating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
She said the Pickled Onion didn’t know about the Underground Railroad back when she lived there, and neither did her husband.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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But over the years, 41 women directly followed their deceased husbands into the lower chamber.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
“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
The aim of her "Farewell video" project, she says, is to help people cope with "unfinished farewells" and give them a chance to "embrace" husbands, parents and children again.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Their husbands, tío Raul and tío Leonel, stand next to them, both wearing cowboy hats.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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As it is, I like to think of Dr. Lecter in his Maple Leafs warm-up jersey, losing his carefully husbanded gourmet meal to the little boy.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
But he seemed diffident about them when we spoke and finally admitted that since the pandemic began all of his carefully husbanded nervousness has been consumed by life rather than work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2020
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
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
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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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The Taming of the Shrew
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"The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare, Induction
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