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spouse

[spaus, spauz, spauz, spaus] / spaʊs, spaʊz, spaʊz, spaʊs /


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Another hurdle is what to do when an employee’s younger spouse is covered by a workplace health-insurance plan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Half a century later, Jiang is still the reason the Communist Party recoils at any hint of a leader’s spouse wielding power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

A surviving spouse who is the beneficiary of an inherited IRA can withdraw the funds and deposit them into his or her own IRA tax-free within a 60-day window.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

I enjoy my life with my spouse; I just don’t want resentment to build up over time.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

The spouse pairs were announced each year at the Ceremony and shared a dwelling after that.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

The spouses and children of applicants can also secure citizenship, in exchange for a contribution of $100,000 to the Treasury, or $25,000 if they are under 18 years of age.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Things became "very difficult indeed" in the marriage early on, Earl Spencer writes, adding that he is "sure that both spouses despaired of the other at times".

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Marriage compels us, men especially, to mature—to become worthy of the occasion, the institution and our spouses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

It takes careful financial planning and more saving, to make sure both spouses have the funds to maintain their lifestyles and pay for whatever care they may need as they age.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Some, older than Claire, had spouses and dwellings, and left at the end of the day s work.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

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 Richard Rainolde

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 Aubrey De Vere

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 D. Laing Purves

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)

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 Edmund Garratt Gardner




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