estranged husband

noun

formal

: a husband who no longer lives with his wife

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Patterson invited the parents of her estranged husband and their two elderly friends to lunch in July 2024. — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026 Prosecutor Jeremy McWilliams said the evidence showed Patterson had an opportunity to deliberately source death cap mushrooms shortly before preparing the lunch for her estranged husband's family. — CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026 Triple-murderer Erin Patterson appealed her convictions Wednesday for poisoning four of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms. — ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026 More than four years after Florida Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan was shot and killed in a Jacksonville Beach neighborhood, the now-estranged husband of Bridegan's ex-wife is standing trial in an alleged murder-for-hire plot this week. — Lianna Norman, Florida Times-Union, 17 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for estranged husband

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