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spouse

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


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The contributions are in after-tax dollars, but withdrawals are typically tax-free and aren’t required for the owner or spouse.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

She occasionally communicates through Facebook with my previous spouse, with whom I’m still close.

From MarketWatch Aug. 21, 2026

Faith blossoms as Annie comes to understand Xavier’s driving need to reunite with his spouse, and the loving father of two employs a bag of flour to teach her swaddling lessons.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

The American spouse would receive up to $30,000 to marry the foreign national.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

The baroness silenced her spouse with a look.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

"Both Congress and the general American workplace were designed by and for men who had often stay-at-home spouses who handled all of the domestic work," she said.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Today, it’s $7,500 each for workers and their spouses, and those 50 or older can add an additional $1,100.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

By the end of Act 2, when the separated spouses were finally brought together only to face death, their farewell duet was incandescent.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Judge had a client last year where both spouses were working and they were paying more for daycare than their mortgage.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

“And twenty years from now, we’ll all go on vacation together, and our spouses, or whatever, will get jealous that we’re spending too much time talking to each other, and they’ll run off together.”

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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 Edmund Garratt Gardner

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 Aubrey De Vere

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 Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas

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)

SIR Clerk of Oxenford," our Hoste said, "Ye ride as still and coy, as doth a maid That were new spoused, sitting at the board: This day I heard not of your tongue a word.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves




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