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house

[haus, hauz] / haʊs, haʊz /


NOUN
business establishment
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NOUN
government body, sometimes elected, responsible for laws
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As he was signed up to a joint tenancy, when he left it ended the tenancy for the whole house.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Thousands of people crowded Rio's affluent Barra da Tijuca neighborhood on Saturday as the presidential hopeful visited the house where his father recovered from a stabbing during his own campaign in 2018.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

The mangy movement, which went into remission when Sam Bankman-Fried went to the big house for fraud, is back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

They weren’t “hands-on” when it came to house stuff.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 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

Since then, it has become a popular tourist destination and houses a mountain inn.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Visit open houses and imagine your life outside of this house, including during Thanksgiving and visits from your grandkids.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

I’ve published books with all of the big 5 houses and comparing those experiences to the Counterpoint experience, the Dan experience, is like comparing an AI-generated metaphor, to, well, this one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

On Aug. 5, Betancourt strode into a conference room behind the art deco facade of the old Greyhound Bus Terminal in downtown Washington that houses an auxiliary Pentagon office.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

Along the left-hand side, the houses were mostly hidden behind trees, their green leaves still and silent.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Disney filed demolition permits last year for the building that previously housed La Brea Bakery in Downtown Disney.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

One of its most striking features is an approximately 11,000-square-foot, air-conditioned collector’s garage, which once housed dozens of Foreman’s prized vehicles.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Marinello said thieves are beginning to use artificial intelligence to identify museums with hefty holdings of gold or those housed in smaller, historic buildings that might be easier to breach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

This provided clues about the shape of the space that once housed the dinosaur's brain.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

He made the entire apparatus, including the box that housed the equipment, and he figured out how to rig up a long wire antenna to get a signal.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

More than £1bn for social and affordable housing in England will be provided in the Wednesday's Budget, taking funding for the government's 10-year homes programme past £40bn.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

But as housing costs have also been rising fast, pensioner poverty has actually increased slightly in the last decade.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

She condemned "the tendency to privatise everything" and said she was glad to see other protests in recent weeks over housing costs and a lack of protection for tenants.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

Or should they encourage upgrades to the aging housing stock?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

Some joined the NSB simply for the benefits: more food, more clothing coupons, the best jobs and housing.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom


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