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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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She and her husband built a home for $750,000, while a “tiny fixer upper” in El Segundo would’ve cost upward of $1 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

"I divorce you and have divorced you," wrote her new husband.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

My husband is a senior vice president at a logistics company.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

His two children, Madison and Spencer Huang, both work at Nvidia, as does Madison’s husband, Nico Caprez.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

Mrs. Tilbury pushes her husband out of the room.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

“Wicker” also spends a fair amount of time with the husbands to show how much pressure they feel at home too, light as their burdens often seem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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

"I think men need to come into the conversation as well, and I'm not just talking husbands and partners, I'm talking sons," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

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

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

“And then when you go away, you may leave one or two of my sisters behind you; and I dare say I shall get husbands for them before the winter is over.”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

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

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

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

China did this by building up domestic industries, developing alternative sources for scarce inputs and carefully husbanding its strengths in areas where they saw a chance to seize control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025

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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