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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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Twelve years ago, Catherine Cullen had already adopted two children with her husband - himself an adoptee - when she made a shocking discovery.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026

Along the way, Liu became a U.S. citizen, a husband and a father, as well as one of America’s most decorated mathematicians.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026

When Endeavour was transported from Houston to California, Oschin requested that a photograph of her husband be placed in the commander’s seat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

"My husband flew all the way from England to get to the wedding," she said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 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

They also have in common husbands who are remote, albeit for vastly different reasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Proposed changes to the family code have included allowing women to stipulate in their marriage contracts that their husbands cannot take another wife.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

At a P.T.A. meeting at Wilson School, a couple of really red-blooded mothers stood up and volunteered their husbands to take large groups of trick-or-treaters around the neighborhood.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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

Others husbanded their deutschemarks like farmers girding against unforeseen misfortune.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 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

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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