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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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My mom’s husband was recently diagnosed with cancer.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

Blanca and her husband are undocumented and do not qualify for CalFresh, but they have two children with disabilities who receive benefits each month.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

Among the victims was Shelley Chearman, who lost her husband Alan.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

By all accounts, they were a deeply devoted couple: Peter said he wrote with Lorraine’s voice in mind, while she included music by her husband in every recital.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

A lady, traveling with her maids, was on her way to Seville to meet her husband.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

But over the years, 41 women directly followed their deceased husbands into the lower chamber.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

Though his wife and I had been in the same women’s book group, I’d known Eric only through the wry gripes we’d all made about our husbands.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

“I realized a lot of wives were wishing their husbands were there and they weren’t,” he said.

From MarketWatch Jun. 23, 2026

"For everyone here, it's not easy. I see what my friends are going through. They're watching their husbands change."

From Barron's Jun. 15, 2026

Some wanted him to pray for husbands and sons stationed at the borders of the country.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

But he seemed diffident about them when we spoke and finally admitted that since the pandemic began all of his carefully husbanded nervousness has been consumed by life rather than work.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2020

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

For decades, bootleg recordings of Miss Olivero’s voice, tenderly husbanded, passed from hand to covert hand among her legions of acolytes.

From New York Times Sep. 8, 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

China did this by building up domestic industries, developing alternative sources for scarce inputs and carefully husbanding its strengths in areas where they saw a chance to seize control.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 1, 2025

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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