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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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At 100,000 sq ft, the new site would be more than four times the size of the current attraction, while the former Radio City tower, St John's Beacon, would house a new Yellow Submarine experience.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Our house was 15 minutes from campus and about the same size as our one in Fareham.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

"Even inside the house, the smoke gets in. Honestly, since the haze, my body aches, as if I've been beaten up. The immune system is down. I get coughs and colds easily."

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Several years ago, while dropping her son off at a friend’s house in Studio City, Sam Donnelly fell in love with the charming neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Maggie had been headed to her aunt and uncle’s house to use their outdoor cooking setup.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Some houses in the neighborhood already had piles of sandbags sitting on their front porches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

A Facebook advert we saw had one man "looking for 7/8 ghost tenants in various houses of mine".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

More home builders are cutting prices on new houses even as their construction costs increase, as buyers flee the housing market.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

“When you plop 200 houses down 15 miles from the place where people have to work, you have to build big roads where they can drive fast,” Ferenchak said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

They covered entire mountains, obscuring the small houses at the very top.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

The home comes with plenty of Hollywood history, having housed a string of famous residents over the years.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

The theatre has had a library for years, but Dr Tosh said it "wasn't housed in facilities that were appropriate" and was "harder to access".

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Implementing large language models has been a brute-force approach: Big, fast and expensive GPUs from Nvidia crunch a trillion parameters using massive amounts of memory housed in liquid-cooled, gigawatt-gobbling data centers, all with brute-force pricing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

The new, expanded headquarters in Boston, donated by Harvard Medical School, now housed specialists in grant writing, technology, and administration in addition to regular staff.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Pending home sales offer an early read of how the housing market will fare in the coming months.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Contract signings to purchase homes fell in September to the lowest level on record, as buyers fled the housing market in the wake of the average 30-year mortgage rate crossing over 7%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

It followed armed police swooping on a nearby sheltered housing retirement complex, Ger-y-Nant, where the man was arrested.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Those concerns include living costs, housing affordability, sluggish growth and declining trust in public institutions.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

HUD’s “One Strike Guide” calls on housing agencies to “take full advantage of their authority to use stringent screening and eviction procedures.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander


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