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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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The hospital also has to deal with an influx of people injured in the quake, like Yoktafiana Sinar whose house came down on top of her.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

She moved into her grandfather’s empty house with her first husband, whom she married at 17 years old and later divorced.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

The driver recalls being raised in a "very normal, working family", and at one stage they had to re-mortgage their house so Barnard could continue his racing career.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Instead, we’ve somehow arrived at a version where Gen Z has collectively decided drinking isn’t fun anymore, bars are empty because nobody under 30 leaves the house and nightlife itself is quietly dying.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

She refused the relative safety and comfort of house arrest with a German family and chose to go to prison instead.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Newly enriched Americans are bound to spend some of their windfall on new cars, yachts, houses and the like.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

John Lanchester: “Absolutely. Well, Jack and Kate are at friends’ houses with their friends, Michael and Tanya, and then there’s a young couple there as well.

From Slate Aug. 15, 2026

They found a foothold in Elizabeth, N.J., where they joined a close-knit group of other Holocaust survivors who began building houses, and then entire neighborhoods, that formed post-war suburbs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

As the UK recorded its hottest day of the year on Thursday, residents fled their homes as fires spread through dry grass and tore through houses.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

It was small, as developments go; just five houses tucked into what were probably originally people's backyards.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

These data centers are housed in huge new buildings, stuffed with massive heat-generating computers and cooled by big banks of air conditioning.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

The lab, housed in an unmarked office in a D.C. suburb, had access to the government’s most sensitive databases, from suspicious activity reports to arrest records.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

To demonstrate the approach, the researchers collected cellular samples from 91 manuscripts housed in the Rubenstein Library at Duke University.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

France and Britain housed small communities from former colonies—an immigration pattern so mundane that 1960s France let citizens of former West African colonies fly into Paris without a passport.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

A single exhibit hall had enough interior volume to have housed the U.S.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

The borough has not updated its local plan, which guides new development, since 1999, prompting intervention, external from the housing minister last month.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Add pandemic adolescence, expensive housing and stagnant wages, and different choices begin to look less mysterious than inevitable.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

The Wiener campaign described it as “the world’s first AI trained to say no to anything you ask,” intending to highlight her record on housing, transit, and other issues.

From Slate Aug. 15, 2026

You can get more and better housing for less money.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

With so little housing for so many people, landlords could charge whatever came into their heads.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield




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