espoused 1 of 2

past tense of espouse

espoused

2 of 2

adjective

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for espoused
Verb
  • Meloni has been married to Williams since 1995, while Hargitay met her husband, Peter Hermann, on the set of SVU before their own 2004 nuptials.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 13 Apr. 2025
  • The pair has been married since 1997.
    Rachel Barber, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Three years later, Stack borrowed another $60 million from GE Capital, this time to buy out his investors.
    Jemima McEvoy, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The brothers learned as teenagers that their father had borrowed money through a federal program to drill for wells, and wound up $4 million in debt, including interest, when the wells failed, with the land pledged as collateral.
    Amy Feldman, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Somewhere there is a happy medium to be found between the overbroad rules of the previous administration and the complete absence of rules for domestic companies that the present administration has now adopted.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • There was even a handwritten letter from my birth mom, written the day I was adopted.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The figures include Abigail Abbot Bailey, an eighteenth-century New Englander whose efforts to leave her abusive husband, Asa, were hindered not just by strictures against divorce but also by the prevailing attitudes toward conjugal desire.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
  • The female-nude painting hanging over her conjugal bed satirizes a freaky tendency that rocks her marital arrangement — an unsettling tour de force from Breillat.
    Armond White, National Review, 26 June 2024
Adjective
  • Working-class wives work primarily for the money rather than career satisfaction; this results in more marital tension, which can fuel marital instability that spirals into yet more economic insecurity.
    Joan C. Williams June 13, Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
  • Tatiana, 56, who stood to inherit half of his empire — valued at more than $100 million — ended up receiving substantial marital and business assets after his death, but there are still unresolved disputes in probate court over his estate, court records show.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 12 June 2025
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“Espoused.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/espoused. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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