housewife

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Recent Examples of housewife The next day, her mother and ex-RHOBH housewife Yolanda Hadid posted her own carousel, which showed an ill Bella in a hospital environment undergoing a procedure. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025 Saint John wasn't the first to speak about this condition, as housewives from New York, Potomac and Atlanta also have shared their journeys through the years. Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025 Crowley played mother of four Joan Nash, who blew past traditional housewife tropes and worked as a freelance newspaper columnist. Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025 Her mother, a housewife, dropped her off at school in a Mercedes. Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for housewife
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Noun
  • One post showed Johnson and his wife boating with Bukele and his family on an estuary in El Salvador.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
  • In the film, following a pair of rich siblings (Hill & Wiig) who are cut off from their parents, Lane will play the family patriarch, with Midler portraying his wife.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Gaza is decimated In Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry says more than 66,000 people have been killed − about half of them women and children − and humanitarian agencies now warn of famine.
    Susan Page, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The nation’s women won the Euros on home soil in 2022 and retained their crown this summer.
    Liam Tharme, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025

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“Housewife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/housewife. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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