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estranged wife

noun

formal
: a wife who no longer lives with her husband

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An 81-year-old man was arrested Monday on suspicion of killing his estranged wife more than 40 years ago and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay, police said. Jason Green, Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2025 The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said suspect Qihao Jin's, 35, estranged wife was not at the home. Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2025 Saldaña shares many of her scenes with Gascón as Rita Mora Castro, an attorney who aids Emilia along her gender-affirming journey, while Gomez plays Emilia's estranged wife Jessica Del Monte. Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Nov. 2025 Hudson’s brother-in-law at the time, William Balfour, was the gunman and killed Hudson's mother, her brother Jason Hudson and her 7-year-old nephew Julian, the son of his estranged wife, Hudson's sister Julia. Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025 Gustav, who left the family abruptly when his children were little, has returned not so much to mourn his estranged wife as to interest Nora in playing a movie role he’s written for her. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 Nov. 2025 Trudeau shares Hadrien and son Xavier, 18, as well as daughter Ella-Grace, 16, with his estranged wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau. Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025 Bijou Phillips, the estranged wife of Danny Masterson, is reportedly petitioning a California court to change her 11-year-old daughter's name. Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025 Deiseroth continued to yell and bang his head in the back of the car while Lane, Dorestant and Scibilia arranged for Deiseroth’s estranged wife to come down from Miami-Dade County to pick up the couple’s children, according to the footage and his arrest report. David Goodhue october 24, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Estranged wife.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/estranged%20wife. Accessed 3 Dec. 2025.

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