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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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Pursuing three doomed relationships, she hurtled from her 30s, still dreaming of a husband and child, to her early 50s, with severely constricted options.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star Jen Affleck is divorcing Zac Affleck, her husband of seven years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Mahmoud, 44, says she and her husband now spend their combined salaries on bread alone.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

He celebrated on stage alongside his husband in New Hampshire.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

“This is the same flag my husband, Mr. Hamline, carried into battle at Chicamauga,” Aunt Fanny proclaimed.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

“Wicker” also spends a fair amount of time with the husbands to show how much pressure they feel at home too, light as their burdens often seem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

"About 60% of husbands and wives in the sample said they exercised, but only about a third exercised together," Yorgason said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

“There are a lot of women whose husbands are not going to work today.”

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

"Because of the people who've gone to fight and the families left behind with sons, husbands, children and grandchildren there. But these elections can't influence what will happen."

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The mothers and children back at home would lean on one another and on other family members while their husbands and fathers were away.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

From there to the line, she husbanded her lead like someone who had been doing it all her life.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2018

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

Others husbanded their deutschemarks like farmers girding against unforeseen misfortune.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2014

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

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

Aragorn let them drift with the stream as they wished, husbanding their strength against weariness to come.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien


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