wives
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The group - thought by authorities to be the wives and children of IS fighters - have been stuck in Roj detention camp until now, with the Australian government refusing to officially repatriate them.
From BBC
His correspondence over the years with Epstein suggests he was married and had two wives at one point.
From BBC
Let’s leave aside the fact that you were wounded by past experiences — buying a home with successive wives with a tenants-in-common deed rather than maintaining your own separate properties — the same risks have presented themselves.
From MarketWatch
Most kithul-producing households divide labour the same way -- husbands collect the sap while the wives process it into sweets.
From Barron's
We are introduced to “clever women,” well-educated daughters and wives with no upward mobility and no chance at a public life, who turned their “restless intelligence” to medicine.
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