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spouse

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


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Under federal law, employers are generally required to pay out workplace retirement accounts to a surviving spouse, or the last recorded beneficiary if the spouse has signed a waiver forgoing the funds.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

If your spouse is retired, here’s your chance to work together.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

You are a single man with no children or spouse.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

Leave all “Oh, Mary!” jokes aside before you start this well-researched biography of President Lincoln’s complicated spouse.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

The campaign apparatus existed exclusively to serve the candidate, not the spouse or the family.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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