husband
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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The Taming of the Shrew
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"The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare, Induction
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