spouse

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Recent Examples of spouse Robyn, 46, remains his legal spouse. Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2025 Some spouses suddenly started spending hours scrolling through online forums, or watching videos that push conspiracist narratives. Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 Wever, 45, put on a heartbreaking performance as the spouse of a Lumon employee in Severance. Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025 Liz’s spouse, meanwhile, never really gets much of a personality at all. Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for spouse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spouse
Noun
  • Jeffrey Katzenberg—film producer, former DreamWorks CEO, and founding partner of tech investment firm WndrCo—is, perhaps most importantly, a dad and a grandfather.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Ealrlier in the evening, part-owner Renee Medford posted in a Haltom City Facebook group that one of her business partners had seized the landmark restaurant, 5010 Stanley Keller Road.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • His father taught him that a husband provides, a wife takes care of children.
    Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Pearl Miles, 29, loved going through her husband's school yearbooks and reading through the personal messages written by his classmates.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Goldenberg, who is based in Cleveland, had initially picked up the extra job a few years ago to help pay down the massive student debt he and his wife, a family doctor, had accumulated during medical school.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • In 1944, Jimmie McKee and his wife, Minnie, bought the seven-room, two-story house in Washington Heights.
    Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Spouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spouse. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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