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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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Homemaker Sifra, 29, said her husband and two children have been coughing for a month.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Thirteen years ago her family, which includes her husband and their son, Joe, now 18, moved here from England.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

In 1980, she launched her own costume brand with her husband, called Genesis Mask Band.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Lately, she and her husband have cut down on nonessential spending to save money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Who knew her exact age except her husband?

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

“There are a lot of women whose husbands are not going to work today.”

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Valerie, who’d joined the campaign earlier in the fall as one of Barack’s advisers, was there, along with Susan and my posse of girlfriends and their husbands and children.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

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

She has carefully husbanded her resources over the decades, and she can still deliver a classy, effective performance.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 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

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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