estranged wife

noun

formal
: a wife who no longer lives with her husband

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In just 17 minutes, a Tarrant County jury convicted an Arlington man of capital murder in the 2025 stabbing death of his estranged wife, prosecutors said Wednesday. Doug Myers, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026 He was executed for the 2006 murder of his estranged wife and is the first of a series of three executions in the state to be carried out over three weeks. Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026 Jake Bigoni, 37, was taken into custody Wednesday after officers performing a welfare check for his estranged wife, Eliana Bigoni, discovered her dead inside his Plano, Texas, apartment. Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 17 Aug. 2026 The trial of a man who admitted to suffocating his estranged wife and her two young daughters with a plastic bag more than a decade ago began Monday morning with jury selection. Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 17 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for estranged wife

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“Estranged wife.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/estranged%20wife. Accessed 25 Aug. 2026.

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