husband
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Katherine had told her husband she was working in "building one".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
On Instagram, the store owner, whose husband is Jewish, posted, “This was never about an author, her Jewish identity, or the subject of her book. It was never about censorship.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Diana wore the daring off-the-shoulder gown to a gala dinner in London in 1994 on the day that her husband, now the king, admitted during a TV interview to being unfaithful.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
She sells about a third of the position each year for three years, which is also the amount she and her husband are living on.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
She and her husband lived about a mile and a half from the Beje, outside the cramped old center of the city.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Parents raised sons to be husbands and fathers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
It’s women bringing their boyfriends, women who now bring their husbands, couples coming together, and I love it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
The paper reports on three women who lost their "sons, husbands, and homes", while countless others wait for news about their missing loved ones.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
In Botswana and South Africa, too, women are desperate for sons and husbands to return from a conflict many say they were duped into joining, as authorities warn recruiters are still active.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
At a P.T.A. meeting at Wilson School, a couple of really red-blooded mothers stood up and volunteered their husbands to take large groups of trick-or-treaters around the neighborhood.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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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
Our research found Jersey trusts which husbanded billions.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 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
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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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The Taming of the Shrew
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