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spouse

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


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“If your husband or spouse comes home and says they want to build a museum, I suggest your response is a hard no.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

The wife of a loaded investor dabbles in documentary filmmaking and befriends the spouse of a laid-off factory worker.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

But he acknowledges that having no spouse, children or mortgage afforded him unusual freedom.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

But either way, the math is the same for the surviving spouse who switches from married filing jointly for taxes to filing single, but with the same income as before.

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 2026

She was also his first cousin and therefore a natural choice for a spouse.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

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

Things became "very difficult indeed" in the marriage early on, Earl Spencer writes, adding that he is "sure that both spouses despaired of the other at times".

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

You may call it an age-gap retirement or May-December planning — but when financial planner Jon Ulin helps couples who have a 10-year-plus age gap between spouses, he calls it a “two-clock problem.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 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

Maybe parents or spouses would have taken the clothes and opened up the other one's drawers, but we were not father and daughter.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour

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

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

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

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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