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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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Spalding’s husband, Matthew, is that graduate school’s dean, and Samson has taken classes with one or both of them, according to a State Department official.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2026

"Kevin, a double Ballon d'Or winner, was a much loved husband, father and grandfather," it continued.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Sally Anne Cash had purchased the house in 2019 with her husband.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

She said her husband, Jesús Rangel Romero, 28, was not a part of the trade.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

She has taught Ramona, her husband Francisco, and all three children how to write their names.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

“I realized a lot of wives were wishing their husbands were there and they weren’t,” he said.

From MarketWatch Jun. 23, 2026

"For everyone here, it's not easy. I see what my friends are going through. They're watching their husbands change."

From Barron's Jun. 15, 2026

What matters now is the chance to see their sons and husbands one last time, they say.

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

Nearby, their husbands and friends sat around a table playing dominoes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

In Wyoming, a group of the wives of elected officials had worked behind the scenes to convince their husbands to support female suffrage.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

But he seemed diffident about them when we spoke and finally admitted that since the pandemic began all of his carefully husbanded nervousness has been consumed by life rather than work.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2020

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

For decades, bootleg recordings of Miss Olivero’s voice, tenderly husbanded, passed from hand to covert hand among her legions of acolytes.

From New York Times Sep. 8, 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

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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