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spouse

[spaus, spauz, spauz, spaus] / spaʊs, spaʊz, spaʊz, spaʊs /


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People might visit the grave of a spouse or a child, but how many visit the grave of a parent, grandparent, uncle or aunt?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Burns is not trans, but her spouse, whom she married last year, is trans and nonbinary.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

For spouse caregivers living with the care recipients, costs were much lower than for an adult child caring for an aging parent but not living with them.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Robert Romanoff, a trust and estates lawyer at Levenfeld Pearlstein in Chicago, said he has included provisions in premarital agreements requiring that a business-owning spouse commission a compensation study.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

When an adult member of the community applied for a spouse, the committee pondered for months, sometimes even years, making the selection, matching the characteristics—energy level, intelligence, industriousness, other traits—that would make two people compatible.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

Like many long-married spouses, they seem to treat bickering as a love language.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Several people shared stories about convincing their spouses, friends, or family to come along — some more successfully than others.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

A lifetime or beneficiary-controlled trust living trust is effective for wealthy individuals with spouses.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

Courts often consider the cash provided for down payments as a gift to the couple in divorce proceedings, splitting the home equity equally between both spouses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

His parents and siblings attended along with spouses and many of their children.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

And right as Rachel and Leah were both wives unto Jacob, right so man's soul through light of knowing in the reason, and sweetness of love in the affection, is spoused unto God.

From The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 by Edmund Garratt Gardner

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

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

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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