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spouse

[spous, spouz, spouz, spous] / spaʊs, spaʊz, spaʊz, spaʊs /


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Last year, each spouse transferred 50% of the house to a revocable trust in their name.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Kardashian and former spouse Kanye West bought a multimillion-dollar Hidden Hills estate in 2014.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

When I was on “Falling Skies” and played the grievous loss of a spouse, people reached out to me.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Any property purchased prior to a marriage belongs to that spouse alone unless it has been commingled in some way.

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 2026

“I guess so. I never see him. He was older. Once he finished his training, he moved away from our dwelling. He might even have a spouse by now.”

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

Judge had a client last year where both spouses were working and they were paying more for daycare than their mortgage.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

Among the visitors are young travellers discovering the island for the first time, as well as families including women wearing headscarves, accompanied by their spouses and children in strollers.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

A line snakes all the way around the casino floor on Memorial Day and Veterans Day, when veterans and their spouses eat free.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

In other instances, they were daughters, state officials, or even the spouses of the governors doing the appointing.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

A few weeks after the election, I’d gone with Barack to Washington for a daylong orientation offered to newly elected senators and their spouses.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

And right as Rachel and Leah were both wives unto Jacob, right so man's soul through light of knowing in the reason, and sweetness of love in the affection, is spoused unto God.

From The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 by Gardner, Edmund Garratt

The unworthy suit, She scorned, from childhood spoused in heart to Christ: She fled: upon the river lay a boat: She rowed it on through forests many a mile; A month had passed since then.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

Thou shalt be spoused to fair Gwendoline; Love her, and take her, for she is thine own, If so thy uncle and her self do please.

From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

SIR Clerk of Oxenford," our Hoste said, "Ye ride as still and coy, as doth a maid That were new spoused, sitting at the board: This day I heard not of your tongue a word.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

To followe pleasure, and the beastlie mocions of the mynde: what libertée call you that, to liue in a godly, meane, The libertie in mariage. and Mediocritée of life, with thy spoused wife.

From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Rainolde, Richard




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