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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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Kent is grateful for the upbringing and support his parents gave him while also teaching him how to be a husband, father and now grandfather.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

Jacqueline Villafranca, 38, from Peru, told AFP she was evacuated in about an hour on Friday evening from the village of Navalagamella to Alcobendas with her husband and two daughters, aged 16 and two.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

If their young daughter had not fallen asleep by 7pm, Emily said her husband would come into the bedroom and pull her away saying: "Mummy's got to go now."

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

After her husband died in 1978, Maryon Pittman Allen represented Alabama in the Senate for five months.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

Anybody who was husband fodder for a country gal like Tansy would have to stand up to butchering day.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

When the possessive and paranoid Frank Ford runs into Margaret as she’s scurrying to meet his wife, Alice, he pointedly remarks, “I think, if your husbands were dead, you two would marry.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 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

A group of our husbands escorted her home.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

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

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

She had been husbanding her own misery, shaping it, making of it an art and a Way.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison




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