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
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
These portrayals were part of an even longer history of depicting wives as nags and harridans, a narrative device that can be found in the Old Testament.
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026
They also trained some of the officers’ wives.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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