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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 Harlequin launched as an imprint solely for these novels, often targeting housewives who could purchase titles at their grocery stores. — Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026 On Double Lives of Suburban Wives, a group of housewives and their husbands work in adult content creation to provide for their families. — Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 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

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Noun

Becca and Renee Good were not legally married, according to a family lawyer, but referred to one another as wives.

— Tim Sullivan, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
But in 2020, the Nevada Supreme Court overruled the convictions — arguing that jurors shouldn’t have been allowed to hear information about Randolph’s previous wives, including Gault, and his time in prison.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of wives

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An Israeli airstrike killed at least five Palestinians, including four women, in an apartment building in Gaza City early on Saturday, health and civil defence service officials said.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
The conference — 20 men and women pontificating, arguing, strategizing, hashing out the truth — is the entire movie.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Oct. 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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