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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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Louisa Nicoll knew her husband John was going to die about a year before it happened.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Some, like my husband, seek therapy as adults.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

Although Holmes and Evans have two children together and refer to each other as husband and wife, Holmes told People in 2025 that they were not legally married.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

My husband and I have lived in the same house for 23 years.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

Grandma Edem had made good money from her clam picking and trading and had left gold jewelry for all her children, but it was being hoarded by Ma’s older sister and her greedy husband.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

“Wicker” also spends a fair amount of time with the husbands to show how much pressure they feel at home too, light as their burdens often seem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

"About 60% of husbands and wives in the sample said they exercised, but only about a third exercised together," Yorgason said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

"I think men need to come into the conversation as well, and I'm not just talking husbands and partners, I'm talking sons," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Still, there’s clearly a lot of resentment among some Christian conservative women about husbands who don’t do chores.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Then he assaulted toe first boughs manfully, while the gentlewoman ran about underneath, talking about hawks and husbands and toe nice weather they were having.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

But he seemed diffident about them when we spoke and finally admitted that since the pandemic began all of his carefully husbanded nervousness has been consumed by life rather than work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2020

From there to the line, she husbanded her lead like someone who had been doing it all her life.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2018

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

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

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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