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  • present tense form of house (3rd person singular).
  • plural of house.
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houses



NOUN
business establishment
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NOUN
government body, sometimes elected, responsible for laws
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They found a foothold in Elizabeth, N.J., where they joined a close-knit group of other Holocaust survivors who began building houses, and then entire neighborhoods, that formed post-war suburbs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

A similar photo of the houses on fire is also splashed across the front of today's Daily Mirror beside the headline "Britain on fire".

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

A total of 45 houses flooded in cities such as Ichikawa, Kashiwa and Sakura.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

By contrast, the Daily Mail opts for a much simpler single-word headline "Inferno" across a picture of burning houses in the West Midlands.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

All the houses look the same, with their tiny backyards.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam



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