husband
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Heather Wilkinson's husband Ian, the only surviving guest of the lunch, was in court.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
I might put a little more in the cash account so my motorcycle- and golf-obsessed husband can indulge himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Margo” marks Pfeiffer’s first series collaboration with David E. Kelley, her husband since 1993.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Hilton, who shares son Phoenix and daughter London with her husband, closed on the property on June 20, 2025.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
“I may be blinder than any bat, but I got me a government-issue rifle. It was the one my husband, Mr. Hamline, carried when he fought with Captain Lilly’s Eighteenth Indiana Light Artillery at Chicamauga.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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In Botswana and South Africa, too, women are desperate for sons and husbands to return from a conflict many say they were duped into joining, as authorities warn recruiters are still active.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
When Thoreau visited the scene a few days later, he “found women who had already altered the gowns of the passengers—presumably including Fuller’s—that their husbands and sons had stolen from the beach.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
She says that often successful writers are supported by wealthy husbands, by grants, by residencies.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Both women were openly wistful about having to leave that behind for one spent supporting their husbands in Washington, D.C.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
A few had super-involved husbands; others had husbands like mine, who were oversubscribed and away a lot.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
He married Paula Schwartz in 1983, and with her he tenderly husbanded the land, planting an effusion of flora.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 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
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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