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wife

[wahyf] / waɪf /


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"I'm not a hypocrite. I'm the breadwinner, earning my living there for my wife and children," Sopian Suputra, who works as a security guard at the plant, said.

From Barron's

After a lightning operation by the US to spirit the deposed president and his wife out of the country on 3 January, Venezuela has found itself in limbo.

From BBC

His Sonny, a Texas evangel with a devoted flock, is deeply flawed — to watch the way his wife flinches when he approaches her tells its own sad backstory.

From Los Angeles Times

During his time in Greensboro, North Carolina, Jackson met his wife, Jacqueline Jackson, led student protests and began his involvement with the civil rights movement.

From Salon

Obama added that his wife Michelle "got her first glimpse of political organizing at the Jacksons' kitchen table when she was a teenager".

From BBC