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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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On special occasions like his birthday, my husband or I try to write thank-you notes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

The politician's husband, Phil Haines, said on Wednesday that the "horrendous incident" had caused his wife significant injuries but "her heart and her mind" were "in good shape".

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Knight and her husband, who couldn’t join us Wednesday, just closed the sale of their property to a nonprofit housing developer whose mission is to address the racial wealth gap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

I’m 67, my husband is 69, and we’ve been married 38 years.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

Joey has increasingly become a voice for advocacy, and her husband back at home isn’t happy about it.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

“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

Other members, including women, said wives were happier with the idea of their husbands whiling away the hours in a men-only environment rather than a mixed bar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 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

"I think men need to come into the conversation as well, and I'm not just talking husbands and partners, I'm talking sons," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

We would talk about art, perhaps, or yoga, or our husbands.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

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

Even the wilderness is carefully husbanded there, and though that forest had been logged for centuries there were no waste places in it, no desolations of stumps, no eroded slopes.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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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