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spouse

[spous, spouz, spouz, spous] / spaʊs, spaʊz, spaʊz, spaʊs /


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A surviving spouse, age 60 or older, but under FRA, gets between 71% and 99% of the worker’s basic benefit amount.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

The American spouse would receive up to $30,000 to marry the foreign national.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

Another said, “You can’t snap your fingers and get a spouse on demand, sadly.”

From Salon Aug. 12, 2026

Last year, each spouse transferred 50% of the house to a revocable trust in their name.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Thinking about it as she wandered the halls of the empty lab, so quiet and unoccupied today, Claire found herself wondering, suddenly, if she would be able to apply for a spouse.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

Surviving spouses, at FRA or older, generally get 100% of the worker’s basic benefit amount, the IRS says.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

Among the visitors are young travellers discovering the island for the first time, as well as families including women wearing headscarves, accompanied by their spouses and children in strollers.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

In other instances, they were daughters, state officials, or even the spouses of the governors doing the appointing.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

The bill would let Congress keep existing individual stocks but prohibit lawmakers, spouses and dependent children from buying new shares.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Long ago, Grandma and Grandpa Larsen had specified that when they died, all their children and their spouses were to use an allocated sum of money to go on a Scandinavian cruise.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

To followe pleasure, and the beastlie mocions of the mynde: what libertée call you that, to liue in a godly, meane, The libertie in mariage. and Mediocritée of life, with thy spoused wife.

From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Richard Rainolde

He wan all Scotland.Also in this yere Robert Wynchelsee erchebysshop of Caunterbury spoused the kyng Edward and Margarete the kynges suster of Fraunce togidere: and also pees was mad betwen bothe kynges.

From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas

The unworthy suit, She scorned, from childhood spoused in heart to Christ: She fled: upon the river lay a boat: She rowed it on through forests many a mile; A month had passed since then.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere

SIR Clerk of Oxenford," our Hoste said, "Ye ride as still and coy, as doth a maid That were new spoused, sitting at the board: This day I heard not of your tongue a word.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves

Thou shalt be spoused to fair Gwendoline; Love her, and take her, for she is thine own, If so thy uncle and her self do please.

From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)




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