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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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When Vera C. Bushfield succeeded her late husband in 1948, she didn’t even bother to move to Washington.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

"My husband was always such a supportive, positive person," she said.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Her husband, Tetsutaro Shimizu, is the ballet company’s executive director and choreographer.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

The 28-year-old, who works in public relations, and her husband, who works as a construction project manager at a real-estate company, paid $629,000 for the three-bedroom home.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

Akira’s father looked like he was still going to argue, but Akira’s mother hiked Hildi up on her hip with one arm and pushed her husband toward the back door with the other.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

But over the years, 41 women directly followed their deceased husbands into the lower chamber.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

Though his wife and I had been in the same women’s book group, I’d known Eric only through the wry gripes we’d all made about our husbands.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 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

She and her sisters have led such turbulent lives—so many husbands, homes, jobs, wrong turns among them.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

Others husbanded their deutschemarks like farmers girding against unforeseen misfortune.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 9, 2014

Our research found Jersey trusts which husbanded billions.

From The Guardian Jul. 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

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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