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spouse

[spous, spouz, spouz, spous] / spaʊs, spaʊz, spaʊz, spaʊs /


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When I was on “Falling Skies” and played the grievous loss of a spouse, people reached out to me.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

If your house needs repairs, does your spouse chip in?

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

If your pilot suddenly keeled over, would you trust their spouse to fly the plane?

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

My future spouse has children from a previous relationship and is not as financially secure as I am.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

If their spouse does something positive, it’s a selfish person doing a positive thing.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

Among the visitors are young travellers discovering the island for the first time, as well as families including women wearing headscarves, accompanied by their spouses and children in strollers.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

In other instances, they were daughters, state officials, or even the spouses of the governors doing the appointing.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

Other numbers were used by two journalists’ spouses, one of whom is the general counsel of a major law firm.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

To forestall this happening to younger women who are currently caregiving, she educates them about spousal IRAs, which allow nonworking spouses to save for retirement based on household income.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

Whether I wish it or not, I possess them, their spouses and children, their jobs and money and life.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

Thou shalt be spoused to fair Gwendoline; Love her, and take her, for she is thine own, If so thy uncle and her self do please.

From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

He wan all Scotland.Also in this yere Robert Wynchelsee erchebysshop of Caunterbury spoused the kyng Edward and Margarete the kynges suster of Fraunce togidere: and also pees was mad betwen bothe kynges.

From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir

To followe pleasure, and the beastlie mocions of the mynde: what libertée call you that, to liue in a godly, meane, The libertie in mariage. and Mediocritée of life, with thy spoused wife.

From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Rainolde, Richard

And right as Rachel and Leah were both wives unto Jacob, right so man's soul through light of knowing in the reason, and sweetness of love in the affection, is spoused unto God.

From The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 by Gardner, Edmund Garratt

The unworthy suit, She scorned, from childhood spoused in heart to Christ: She fled: upon the river lay a boat: She rowed it on through forests many a mile; A month had passed since then.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey




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