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Recent Examples of hausfrau
The German actress could draft off her own Lead Actress campaign to score two nominations in the same year — a feat last pulled off by Scarlett Johansson, who in a weird bit of Oscar symmetry also got her Supporting nod for playing a German hausfrau in World War II.
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Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024
Deborah Greenspan, an energetic hausfrau whose principal cause is resettling immigrants, has decided to host an inventive, and obnoxious, dinner party.
—Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
Harry's alter ego is a dull breadwinner who, like most male suburbanites, bores his hausfrau (Jamie Lee Curtis) with the minutiae of his drab job.
—Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2019
Her father was a music teacher, her mother a hausfrau or a housewife.
—Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 3 Apr. 2018
Being a mother involves being an efficient hausfrau.
—John Richardson, Town & Country, 13 Oct. 2015
Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024
Deborah Greenspan, an energetic hausfrau whose principal cause is resettling immigrants, has decided to host an inventive, and obnoxious, dinner party.
—Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
Harry's alter ego is a dull breadwinner who, like most male suburbanites, bores his hausfrau (Jamie Lee Curtis) with the minutiae of his drab job.
—Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2019
Her father was a music teacher, her mother a hausfrau or a housewife.
—Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 3 Apr. 2018
Being a mother involves being an efficient hausfrau.
—John Richardson, Town & Country, 13 Oct. 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hausfrau
Noun
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When his mother, Waltraud Maria, a chemist, married his God-fearing father, Dietrich, an electrician, she was forced to sacrifice her Catholicism and her career in science to become a Protestant housewife.—
Holden Seidlitz,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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Jesus is a zhlubby failson, Mary is a flirtatious blonde housewife, Joseph is the horny stepdad who stepped up, and Judas is a sleazy con man.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Her mother, who was also named Beulah—a common tradition in the late 19th century—was a homemaker and the daughter of the state’s former governor.—
Shoshi Parks,
Popular Science,
19 Mar. 2026
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Thaddeus Mosley was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, on July 23, 1926, to a homemaker mother and a miner father.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
8 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The housekeeper was already in a drug court program as an alternative to incarceration on other charges when authorities arrested her in connection with the Richins case, investigators said.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 Mar. 2026
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Kidd uses a hotel like Marriott to illustrate his proposal, noting that replacing a $28-per-hour human housekeeper with a $2-per-hour robot results in a significant loss of tax revenue.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Hausfrau.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hausfrau. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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