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wives

[wahyvz] / waɪvz /


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His correspondence over the years with Epstein suggests he was married and had two wives at one point.

From BBC

Let’s leave aside the fact that you were wounded by past experiences — buying a home with successive wives with a tenants-in-common deed rather than maintaining your own separate properties — the same risks have presented themselves.

From MarketWatch

Most kithul-producing households divide labour the same way -- husbands collect the sap while the wives process it into sweets.

From Barron's

We are introduced to “clever women,” well-educated daughters and wives with no upward mobility and no chance at a public life, who turned their “restless intelligence” to medicine.

From The Wall Street Journal

Many online have been quick to point out the irony of his remarks, considering the king's own mother was from Eswatini and one of his wives is also from the neighbouring kingdom.

From BBC