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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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She said this has left Rachel "very, very shaken" and "doesn't want to leave the house".

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

We plan on staying at the house the whole weekend and hanging out by the pool.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

Then Miller enlisted investment help from his friend, railroad magnate Henry Huntington, transformed the boarding house into a hotel and renamed it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Lee recounts a rigmarole of joys and traumas—a trip to the circus, a bad breakup, a house fire—which all fail to leave much of an impression.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

So I stand up and reassure her, out loud, that I will not go to the old man’s house.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold




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