husband
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About 20 miles south, in Cedartown, her husband Noah decided to come back to his hometown to help right the ship.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Zhang lives in Irvine with her husband, Edric Ding, who is also a real estate agent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
Her husband, Zvika, along with three other men - Yaniv Hayun, Dr Shota Musayev and Asaf Rajuan - entered the cockpit after Capt Machchhar managed to open the door despite his injuries.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
She said the bird had chased off her husband as well as a neighbor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Concerned for justice or retaliation for a son or husband, rather than a whole battalion of sons or husbands?”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Abdullahi spoke about growing up Muslim and the tradition of women showing respect for their husbands and male family members by cooking for them and serving them first.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
The two female characters, initially wary of each other, are both on a hiatus from their husbands, and the German tourist eventually draws big crowds by performing magic tricks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Parents raised sons to be husbands and fathers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
For those whose husbands fought for the British in the jungles of places like Malaya and Borneo in the1950s and 60s time is now running out.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
One of the husbands, possibly incited by the vicar, continually laid small charges against Norwood in court, causing him much exasperation and necessitating repeated trips across Bermuda to defend himself.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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As it is, I like to think of Dr. Lecter in his Maple Leafs warm-up jersey, losing his carefully husbanded gourmet meal to the little boy.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
After his parents divorced, Folkert’s mom did yard work and landscaping and cleaned houses to earn money — which she husbanded with care.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2018
Tollett has not only husbanded the landscape; he has branded it.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 10, 2017
Others husbanded their deutschemarks like farmers girding against unforeseen misfortune.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2014
Even the wilderness is carefully husbanded there, and though that forest had been logged for centuries there were no waste places in it, no desolations of stumps, no eroded slopes.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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The glimpse reminded voters that Davis, who was husbanding his resources for a late advertising push, was still in the race.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
China did this by building up domestic industries, developing alternative sources for scarce inputs and carefully husbanding its strengths in areas where they saw a chance to seize control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
Allies allow you to project power while husbanding your own resources.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025
"The greater risk environment for financials leads to husbanding of capital and risk-taking, less and more conservative investing and lending, and inevitably, lower growth," said Blankfein, who also served as Goldman's chairman, told Reuters.
From Reuters ● Mar. 20, 2023
Aragorn let them drift with the stream as they wished, husbanding their strength against weariness to come.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Taming of the Shrew
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"The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare, Induction
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