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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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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

When night fell, Arafat produced his magical spell to the delight of a noisy full house.

From BBC ● 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

Would I be able to find my way back to my grandparents’ house in the dark from the alfalfa field?

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

"We need to know about houses, mortgages, selling and tax," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

"The flats have all complained about problems at the nearby houses," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Welly has been part of Unilever’s beauty and well-being segment, which houses brands such as Dove soap, Vaseline jelly and Liquid I.V. drink powders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Nollie lived on Bos en Hoven Straat, a block of identical attached houses with white curtains and potted plants in the windows.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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 tigers are housed in the park's Land of the Tigers, which has a 300m-long raised walkway so visitors can watch the animals from above.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 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

An outfit called FrontPoint Partners, soon to be wholly owned by Morgan Stanley, housed a collection of hedge funds.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

In the early 2000s, he held a string of ministerial posts, including housing, local government in the Blair and Gordon Brown governments.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 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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