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house

[haus, hauz] / haʊs, haʊz /


NOUN
business establishment
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NOUN
government body, sometimes elected, responsible for laws
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For months after her arrest, he said his daughter would become "distraught" whenever they drove past her house.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Investigators found cash throughout his house, hidden in walls, containers of spaghetti sauce and a potted plant, according to authorities interviewed in the film.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

After the game, it’s most likely time for movie night with the family, whether that means we’re going to a movie or if we’re popping one off at the house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

“Behold: the state of chaos that my house has become!” she wrote, while posting photos from her dwelling on Instagram.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

“You can see them because I’m allowing you to. I could lower the veil and you’d think we’re in an empty house that rattles and is still ‘settling,’ ” Lou replies.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

At that point, in the 1980s, one third of houses in England were council-owned.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Tech companies have paid for new fire houses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

But Kering has recently shaken up management at its smaller houses, last month pushing out Anthony Vaccarello as creative director at Saint Laurent and Sean McGirr at Alexander McQueen.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Orphaned at 5, he was raised by an older sister in a household where money was extremely tight and found himself painting houses just to afford college classes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

The streets of New Orleans are quiet and lined with rows of neat houses, manicured lawns, and flowered gardens; it all whizzes past as the night shifts to dawn.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

One room had squeaky, thin-slat wooden floors that housed a small department store assortment of dishes, kitchen appliances, tools, fans—just about anything a house would need.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

In a previous hearing in 2019, de facto civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi herself addressed the court, housed in the iconic Peace Palace in The Hague.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Many of the 100 items selected from the 90,000 housed in the David Bowie Centre, which was built to contain the sprawling archive, have never been seen in public.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

The team used more than 15,000 graphics processing units on Frontier, one of the world's fastest supercomputers, housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

Not only was it a training facility, but it also had residences that housed cosmonauts, scientists, and space personnel and their families.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

California’s three most powerful elected leaders — for the first time, all Latino — in their private meeting discussed healthcare, energy costs, artificial intelligence and implementing funding from an $11.25-billion housing bond voters approved Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

In 2014, Burnham, then the shadow health secretary, posted on Twitter in support of Brand following allegations about the comedian's housing arrangements.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Administrators overseeing housing, student activities and orientation meet often to discuss melt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

A camera operator built a custom housing that kept his hands warm at –40 degrees Celsius while he maintained enough dexterity to fly a drone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Mike Burry believed he had to place this bet now, before the U.S. housing market woke up and was restored to sanity.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis


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