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housewives

noun

plural of housewife

as in wives

a married woman in charge of a household She was career-minded and never intended to be a 1950s style housewife.

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Recent Examples of housewives After a two-year hiatus, RHONJ will return for its 15th season, starring housewives Gorga, Teresa Giudice and Dolores Catania. — Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026 Juliet Angus, Amanda Cronin, Karen Loderick-Peace, Juliet Mayhew, Panthea Parker and Nessie Welschinger are all returning, with a new cast photo of the British housewives above. — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 13 July 2026 None of the other housewives appears to get any other combinations of Xs and Os on their digits. — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 10 July 2026 In the 1950s and ’60s, the tranquilizer Miltown was widely prescribed to housewives for anxiety and stress. — Sarah Levy, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026 In recent years, housewives have been introduced as highly polished. — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 12 May 2026 Nene Leakes is one of the housewives confirmed to appear during the Atlanta stop of the special event series. — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 11 May 2026 And nor are any of the spooky figures, which range from 1950s housewives to toothless hags. — The Week, TheWeek, 7 May 2026 Fallen Angels' Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara are heaven-sent in this divine and delirious revival of Noël Coward’s sneakily groundbreaking 1925 play, about a pair of high-society housewives who hatch a plot to hook up with their former lover (Mark Consuelos). — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 3 May 2026

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Perhaps the most remarkable part was that, in this postwar time when few women, let alone the wives of fellow artists, were given much due, Claude Lalanne was a sculptor in her own right.

— Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 21 Aug. 2026
Taking up to four wives is legal in Senegal, though the practice is a common source of tension discussed on the women’s program.

— Adrien Marotte, Christian Science Monitor, 20 Aug. 2026

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None of these ideas were invented by Instagram or by women alone; the concept of the attention economy dates to the early 1970s, and the notion that no press is bad press has existed since the 19th century.

— Laura Jung, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2026
A lot of it was gate-kept, especially from women, and tailored toward men.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026

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As a result, traditions unique to the island were cultivated through the centuries and still survive today, thanks to homemakers and artisans, ranging from basket weavers to ceramicists.

— Helen Iatrou, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2026
In April, Hulu began airing the series The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale that depicts teen girls trained to be docile homemakers.

— Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026

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