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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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So she and her husband bought a gadget that has become ubiquitous for parents across China’s cities: a smartwatch for children.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 21, 2026

That’s when I realized something uncomfortable: I may be continuing this friendship partly because I like to get away from my husband and kids, but also because I’m too scared to end it.

From MarketWatch Sep. 21, 2026

Kavita Kaur Dhillon and her husband Karvinder run the Handsworth Baby and Family Bank on Soho Road, which provides free items including nappies, baby formula, clothes and toys.

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

Hobson, who co-founded the billion-dollar museum alongside her husband, George Lucas, resigned from LA28 earlier this week.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

Three kids and a husband who looked like a movie star, which surprised him.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

Photos of sons, daughters, uncles and husbands pepper Chinese social media, shared by people hoping for news about relatives missing since deadly floods on the border with Nepal last week.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

It’s women bringing their boyfriends, women who now bring their husbands, couples coming together, and I love it.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

She says that often successful writers are supported by wealthy husbands, by grants, by residencies.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

When Thoreau visited the scene a few days later, he “found women who had already altered the gowns of the passengers—presumably including Fuller’s—that their husbands and sons had stolen from the beach.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

There was a baseball game going on, husbands against wives.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

He married Paula Schwartz in 1983, and with her he tenderly husbanded the land, planting an effusion of flora.

From New York Times Mar. 15, 2019

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

Instead, he husbanded it, and Russia grew rich.

From The Guardian Feb. 22, 2017

Wang Lung allowed nothing to be bought and sold after the winter came except what he said, and he husbanded carefully all that they had.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

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

He lacks a strategy for husbanding his domestic political capital, without which he will be remembered mainly as an interruption.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

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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