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[hou] / haʊ /


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He approves of strengthening some local restrictions but bemoans the "terrible cost" and wonders "for HOW LONG?"

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025

Can you think of a way to test HOW humans are able to understand these gestures?

From NewsForKids.net • Feb. 23, 2023

U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter revealed the team’s concerns about a player when he spoke last week at the HOW Institute for Society’s Summit on Moral Leadership in New York.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2022

SO HOW CAN a bunch of male-female duets, in ballroom drag, set to mostly cheesy Sinatra songs, watched over by a spinning disco ball, be anything but a giant cliché?

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

FOREMAN: HOW do I know? 2ND JUROR: I wonder if they let us go home in case we can’t finish tonight.

From "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose




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