husband
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She and her husband, who’s also taking the 19th off, plan to spend five to eight hours playing that day.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
To his family, he was a beloved husband, father and grandfather, who "truly excelled" in his "role as grandad".
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
"My husband stresses that this is a time for unity, not for looking for people to blame," she said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Twilight was filtering through Ohio’s leafy Cuyahoga Valley National Park as my husband and I parked our minivan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
"Tell your master that he is welcome. He may come and serve me and my husband, the Duke, in a palace we have near here."
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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Other members, including women, said wives were happier with the idea of their husbands whiling away the hours in a men-only environment rather than a mixed bar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 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
Still, there’s clearly a lot of resentment among some Christian conservative women about husbands who don’t do chores.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 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
They loosened their stays and sighed the hours away and cursed the heat and their husbands, too, for dragging them to Caldwell County to plant cotton and acres of pecan trees.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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As it is, I like to think of Dr. Lecter in his Maple Leafs warm-up jersey, losing his carefully husbanded gourmet meal to the little boy.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
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
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
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
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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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