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spouse

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


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From April next year, employees in Great Britain who lose a spouse, partner, parent, adult child or sibling will be entitled to up to two weeks' unpaid leave.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Losing your spouse may not double your taxes, but the increase is real.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

When one spouse dies, the surviving spouse’s tax situation changes dramatically.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

This allows the surviving spouse to roll the funds into their own IRA, a valuable tax benefit only available to spouses.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

The spouse pairs were announced each year at the Ceremony and shared a dwelling after that.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

Those surviving spouses, at full retirement age or older, generally get 100% of their late spouse’s basic benefit amount.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

They've met each other's spouses, children, brothers and parents.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

A year later, the spouses announced they would not return to royal duties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

The spouses are also said to retain their property in the affluent Santa Barbara enclave of Montecito, and vacation home in Portugal while also making a “private, non-royal” home in Britain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

True, most of my fellow workers are better cushioned than I am; they live with spouses or grown children or they have other jobs in addition to this one.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

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)

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

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

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




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