husband
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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The Taming of the Shrew
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"The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare, Induction
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