husband
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Meanwhile, Chris’ mother was considering downsizing and had offered her children the opportunity to buy the house she and her husband had built.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
As she lifted heavy groceries before her husband could help, he asked why she didn’t let him lend a hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
An 80-year-old woman and her 85-year-old husband have more than $2 million in investments, a paid-off home, and enough pension and Social Security income to cover their bills.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
The jury heard the husband in the Stockport area case, after pleading guilty, had given an account of his actions and would appear as a witness.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
“I may be blinder than any bat, but I got me a government-issue rifle. It was the one my husband, Mr. Hamline, carried when he fought with Captain Lilly’s Eighteenth Indiana Light Artillery at Chicamauga.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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"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
The ingredients—lumpen husbands; wives that look like overripe supermodels; enough Spandex for Christo to have wrapped the Cooperstown Hall of Fame—are all predictably and obviously engineered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Suvorova writes about girls in school accusing her mother of being a gold digger, intentionally choosing rich boyfriends that would eventually become rich husbands while they lived in poverty and couch surfed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 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
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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
Instead, he husbanded it, and Russia grew rich.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2017
Others husbanded their deutschemarks like farmers girding against unforeseen misfortune.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2014
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
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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