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[hohm] / hoʊm /






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The Seattle Mariners catcher had one of the greatest slugging performances in baseball history in 2025, becoming just the seventh player to bash 60 home runs in a single season.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Perez Hilton’s family has revealed that his children were home when his mental health crisis began to unfold, and now they’re asking the media for space so the family can safely return home.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

Murray said he had lined up a job and arranged to start counselling sessions, but both were being held up by his lack of a home.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

Todd Montgomery pops the lid off a small tube and taps out hundreds of mosquitoes into the backyard of a suburban home outside Washington.

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

ONE month had gone by since Don Quixote had come back home, and his friends still had not seen him.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

Over the next year, Cain, Reyes and Baker grew closer as fellow members of the Monrovia Historic Preservation Group, bonding over their desire to preserve the town’s historic character, especially its Victorian homes.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

"Neighbours are taking them into their homes, but the situation is unsustainable," a volunteer told the paper.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

Unlike condos and co-ops, the townhouse offers “privacy, scale, and authentic architectural grace” that is rare in homes located in multiunit buildings, it continued.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

Though the story is focused on a wealthy couple and a dispute involving two multimillion-dollar homes, women across the socioeconomic spectrum have embraced it as a rallying cry for financial independence.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Mobile homes were different from the wheel-less kind: Their value dropped, like cars’, the moment they left the store.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Lacks-Kelly says his team has homed in on 27 of the country's worst offenders for hare coursing and all but five of them have links to organised crime.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

The company has homed in on this demographic by expanding its traditional deals for Southern California locals to all residents of the Golden State for a period earlier this year.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

They homed in on testosterone by experimenting with sex hormone changes in the animals.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 13, 2026

He has also homed in on a canny, powerful message that could prove to have wider appeal than O’Rourke’s.

From Salon Mar. 9, 2026

Lommy had named him the Bull, on account of this homed helm he had that he polished all the time but never wore.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

The company is also homing in on fast-growing sports like Hyrox, offering a training camp for athletes to prepare for competitions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

The 19-year-old Italian let the race settle down before remorselessly homing in on the Ferrari and blasting past Hamilton on the Hangar Straight on lap eight after strategically saving his battery charge.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

“Buyers from around the country — especially Texas, Vegas, Arizona and L.A. — are homing in on Orange County.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2026

But homing in on the annoying and self-defeating aspects of it misses the real story of how the movement changed American society, and the world, for the better—and how Lindy West did too.

From Slate Mar. 31, 2026

If the burglars take great pains to steal what turns out to contain a homing device that leads the police to them, that’s ironic.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner




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