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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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She and her husband paid $740,000 for a three-bedroom house on the island in 2016.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

Her Mexican mother was naturalized thanks to the 1986 amnesty, but her first husband struggled for years to attain legal status.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

At the time Jatinder Kaur was driving the family's Volkswagen Polo, making deliveries with her husband and their children in the car.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

"My heart hurts so much, and I haven't been able to sleep at night," a wife wrote to her husband.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

Chase realized why the photos of Dr. Krupp’s husband looked familiar.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

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

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

When Thoreau visited the scene a few days later, he “found women who had already altered the gowns of the passengers—presumably including Fuller’s—that their husbands and sons had stolen from the beach.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Both women were openly wistful about having to leave that behind for one spent supporting their husbands in Washington, D.C.

From Salon Jul. 29, 2026

They work with their husbands and sons, whether fighting in the army or sitting quietly on stony slopes to watch the border.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

From there to the line, she husbanded her lead like someone who had been doing it all her life.

From The Guardian Sep. 7, 2018

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

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

Aragorn let them drift with the stream as they wished, husbanding their strength against weariness to come.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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