housewife

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Recent Examples of housewife Spending 34 years as a housewife — all of it in Bayport — was a fantastic learning experience for me. Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 20 June 2025 The work which introduced her signature figure, Welsh housewife Beryl, on a trip to see a male stripper, won the Special Jury Prize. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 June 2025 Each had played an iconic housewife, although Molly stood in fascinating contrast with Lucy Ricardo: the former was a fixer, the latter a firecracker, prone to fits of mischievous rage, then spanked into submission by her bandleader husband. Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 9 June 2025 Smiley appeared on the very first season of RHOC as the fiancé of O.G. housewife Jo De La Rosa. Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 6 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for housewife
Recent Examples of Synonyms for housewife
Noun
  • Adam, his wife and their four young daughters were on the field June 24 for a pregame check-presentation ceremony.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2025
  • Back in 2023, Cameron's parents, Victor and Libby Boyce, opened up about their son on Taylor Lautner and his wife Tay Lautner's The Squeeze podcast.
    Nicholas Rice, People.com, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Thomas officially began to practice and compete with the women's swimmers in Fall 2021.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2025
  • Now, the other women in her village call her a leader.
    TrickleUp, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025

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