husband
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She got involved because her late husband Mike was a club board member and if she wanted to see him she "had to go around there".
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
At the time Brown was ordered to pay $885,000 in damages to Patricia Avila and $50,000 in damages to Maria’s husband.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
In a brief statement late Tuesday, prosecutors said they had sent "a letter concerning the freezing of all assets" of Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya and her husband Ilyas Kaya to "all the relevant institutions".
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
"You don't expect your husband to go into hospital with one thing and then come out via the morgue as a health hazard."
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Her husband, Derek, was a head taller than his wife.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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“There are a lot of women whose husbands are not going to work today.”
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
"Because of the people who've gone to fight and the families left behind with sons, husbands, children and grandchildren there. But these elections can't influence what will happen."
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Photos of sons, daughters, uncles and husbands pepper Chinese social media, shared by people hoping for news about relatives missing since deadly floods on the border with Nepal last week.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
It was a good honeymoon, Grace always said, two weeks picking hops with her husbands family, and sleeping in a gypsy caravan parked in a farmyard.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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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
Instead, he husbanded it, and Russia grew rich.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2017
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
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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The Taming of the Shrew
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"The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare, Induction
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