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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

Tyler, born Gaynor Hopkins, grew up in a council house in Neath, and is survived by her husband of more than 50 years, Robert Sullivan.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

“I think it’s kind of cool when I see stuff around the house and I’m like, ‘Yeah, I printed that.

From The Wall Street Journal 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

And as if reading my mind, Lou says, “That scent is from my simmer pot. I just throw in some lemon peels, orange rind, and cinnamon sticks. Makes the house smell nice.”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

"Seeing the houses go down, seeing neighbours we know - their rooftops just burning, the whole street covered in smoke," he said.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

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

In Stourbridge near the UK's second largest city of Birmingham, smoke rose from smouldering ruins of several roofless houses as firefighters sprayed water on the wreckage Friday.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

Ray asks as the gate shuts and Celia’s neon-yellow athletic shoes squeak down the path between the houses.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

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

One is housed at the Natural History Museum Denmark, while the other belongs to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 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

In an empty flower pot he housed a sociable family of white-footed mice.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

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

We’re navigating historically expensive housing, student debt, inflation, stagnant entry-level wages and a social landscape with more entertainment options than previous generations had.

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

When things go against you, leverage is a curse, not a blessing, as anyone who was on the wrong side of the housing crash nearly two decades ago knows.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

Throughout the United States, public housing agencies have adopted exclusionary policies that deny eligibility to applicants even with the most minor criminal backgrounds.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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