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Her greatest concern is husbanding her voice and her energies.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 4, 2016

The former Florida governor is husbanding his limited resources to spend on television advertisements and organizing efforts in the early-voting states, in particular New Hampshire.

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2015

He is husbanding his personal privacy; yet he ventures forth more in person into the regular capital routines.

From Time Magazine Archive

The K.L.A. is husbanding what few resources it has and is avoiding offensive operations "so it can fight another day," says a senior U.S. intelligence official.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is husbanding the ground, the time, the place, the material, which make up as it were his outlay.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.