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spousal

[spau-zuhl] / ˈspaʊ zəl /




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The spousal role on state visits has traditionally been decorative: waving, smiling and visiting cultural venues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Second, if you wait until 67, your full retirement age, you get your own retirement benefit, plus a spousal excess if 50% of your husband’s full-retirement-age benefit is higher.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

In practice, Social Security pays your own benefit first, and if your spousal benefit is larger, tops it up to that amount.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

Should I take spousal benefits or wait for my own?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

Ascend, fair queen, Pantheon.—Lords, accompany Your noble emperor and his lovely bride, Sent by the heavens for Prince Saturnine, Whose wisdom hath her fortune conquered: There shall we consummate our spousal rites.

From The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare


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