wives
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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And then, even for me, a lot of the bigger guys I worked with, it was really their wives that was like, “You know what? My man can’t dress. I need you to come in.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
“The hotel staff put up screens to give the wives and girlfriends privacy at the hotel pool, and one of the WAGs, who I won’t name, took it back down,” says journalist Alison Kervin.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
The most popular trad wives, like Hannah “BallerinaFarm” Neeleman, are members.
From Salon • May 10, 2026
Usually wives and husbands divide their separate property among their heirs and their second spouse, but there’s no rule that says they must do that.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026
Table by table, the circle of belief widened from friends to acquaintances, from acquaintances to strangers, until it included many prominent Rochester businessmen, doctors, ministers, wives, and children … soon reaching the famous Frederick Douglass.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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