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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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Police said the man's wife had called a neighbour after hearing one of her children crying while on the phone to her husband.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

Shannon Wilson went on to found Kit & Ace and her husband served as an adviser to the business that sold sporty casual wear made from the fabric.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

A few weeks ago at the end of a dispiriting workday, I dragged my husband to an outdoor show headlined by The Breeders.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, begins with Meghan, along with her husband Prince Harry, walking along a country path as she turns and says "come on, you".

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

His mother has moved to California from New Hampshire to be with her youngest daughter, Phebe, and her new husband, David Shattuck.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

The paper reports on three women who lost their "sons, husbands, and homes", while countless others wait for news about their missing loved ones.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

In Botswana and South Africa, too, women are desperate for sons and husbands to return from a conflict many say they were duped into joining, as authorities warn recruiters are still active.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

The health, safety and well-being of husbands, wives, sons and daughters aren’t secondary considerations to us; they are the bedrock on which every mission rests.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Both women were openly wistful about having to leave that behind for one spent supporting their husbands in Washington, D.C.

From Salon Jul. 29, 2026

There was a baseball game going on, husbands against wives.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

For decades, bootleg recordings of Miss Olivero’s voice, tenderly husbanded, passed from hand to covert hand among her legions of acolytes.

From New York Times Sep. 8, 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

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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