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house

[hous, houz] / haʊs, haʊz /


NOUN
business establishment
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NOUN
government body, sometimes elected, responsible for laws
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Today, I live in a quaint house in Los Angeles, where I moved a year ago.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

The Oxy tower is still under construction and will eventually house flats, a hotel, restaurants and bars.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Voters in some California cities have banned or placed moratoriums on data centers, which house computer equipment to power online services.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

Records indicate that the four-bedroom beach house was swiped off the market in June, having undergone a $550,000 price cut the previous month.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

Somewhere in the house there was an old suit of armor that had belonged to his great-grandfather.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

During the pandemic — a period when many Americans upended their lives and moved to new places where they could work remotely — rock-bottom mortgage rates allowed many people to buy houses.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

Hacking It: As AI disrupts traditional career paths, these college students are skipping corporate internships for San Francisco hacker houses and incubators this summer.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

As they finish paperwork between callouts they tell the BBC of visiting houses where people were wearing jumpers or even had the heating on because they didn't know how to turn it off.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

On Wednesday when AFP visited Liulan, floodwaters had receded, but the streets and houses were swamped with thick mud.

From Barron's Jul. 9, 2026

Sweet smoke from small houses on the side of the road filled the open windows of the truck.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

The building previously housed part of the Debenhams department store, which closed in May 2021 following another fire the previous month.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

Roughly 450 atomic clocks, housed in about 80 laboratories worldwide, are continuously compared and averaged into a single international standard known as Coordinated Universal Time.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

Helen Guedez and her brother have chosen to disregard the ominous letter coloring the wall of the building that previously housed their dad, sister and grandmother.

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

The fire is believed to have started on the solar array on the roof of the 500,000 square-foot building, which housed 85 million pounds of frozen food.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

The Temple of Lkossa housed worship halls, a library, studies, even a dormitory where candidates and unmarried Sons of the Six slept when off duty.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

BBC News Pidgin found the agency had secured office space within the Federal Secretariat, the sprawling government complex housing many ministries in Abuja.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

When prices for previously owned homes hit a record high of $440,600 in June, Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors, said the latest housing data contained a glimmer of positive news.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

The figure marked a pullback from a three-year high, as a drop in energy costs more than offset upticks in housing and food.

From Barron's Jul. 14, 2026

“It is reprehensible to overcharge and take advantage of wildfire victims who were in desperate need of housing as they fled their homes from raging fires last year,” Los Angeles County Dist.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

The act granted public housing agencies the authority to use leases to evict any tenant, household member, or guest engaged in any criminal activity on or near public housing premises.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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