household
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Sector-wise, retail trade lost 19,000 jobs, with employment declining in warehouse retailers -- firms like Costco, Sam's Club and others that offer discounts for wholesale quantities of household goods -- and general merchandise stores.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
I’ve seen plenty fail because the household never calculated its own number.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
I was a regular staple at his welcoming household.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
But the median new home, which took 3.4 years of median household income in 1982, took 5.0 years in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
While this drama unfolded in New Hampshire, other members of the Washington household were demonstrating a taste for freedom.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
In those households, Eimbcke witnessed immigrant parents speaking Spanish to their children who replied to them in English.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
More Americans stepped back from the labor market entirely, according to the Labor Department’s separate monthly survey of households.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
For instance, they only count households that have retirement accounts at all.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
The chain has been a fixture of the British High Street for more than 50 years and is still used by around half of all UK households.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
In fact, before Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, ten of the first fifteen American presidents owned enslaved people or grew up in slaveholding households.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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