housewives

plural of housewife

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Recent Examples of housewives That’s clear from the moment the housewives start to arrive. Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 27 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 Finding and renting a desirable apartment in New York today requires such concessions of conscience, income, and pride that surgeons have postponed operations, housewives have gone back to work, hippies have cut their hair, and families have destroyed their pets. Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025 The Netflix series follows housewives in East Texas who welcome in a newcomer from Boston. Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for housewives
Noun
  • What is perhaps surprising is that some parents and soon-to-be parents cling so tightly to old wives tales in the face of so much technological advancement.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Your favorite doctors and doctors’ wives are on call in Vegas with the perfect prescription of honesty, humor and heady shade.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Israel needs more women, and Goldberg-Polin would also represent religious people that are more liberal, which the country also needs, Meron says.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • While the rates of women diagnosed with breast cancer have increased, death rates have been declining, and five-year survival rates have risen.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Around him sat ten women—all of them homemakers and nurses—and one seven-year-old girl.
    Joshua Sharpe August 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025

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“Housewives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/housewives. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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