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espoused

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verb

past tense of espouse

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for espoused
Adjective
  • Just days later, on March 27, the tears were of the happy sort as a local married couple, who asked to remain anonymous, welcomed Mimi and Gucci into their home.
    Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
  • In February 2023, the married star confessed to GQ that his residency was dedicated to his female fans.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Three years later, Stack borrowed another $60 million from GE Capital, this time to buy out his investors.
    Jemima McEvoy, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The brothers learned as teenagers that their father had borrowed money through a federal program to drill for wells, and wound up $4 million in debt, including interest, when the wells failed, with the land pledged as collateral.
    Amy Feldman, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • From the start, the duo adopted an iterative design process, relying on small, focused experiments to shape their platform.
    Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • With details being finalized and legislation being adopted, a lot has been happening.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The figures include Abigail Abbot Bailey, an eighteenth-century New Englander whose efforts to leave her abusive husband, Asa, were hindered not just by strictures against divorce but also by the prevailing attitudes toward conjugal desire.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
  • The female-nude painting hanging over her conjugal bed satirizes a freaky tendency that rocks her marital arrangement — an unsettling tour de force from Breillat.
    Armond White, National Review, 26 June 2024
Adjective
  • The play begins at a marital crisis point in 2020 and unwinds all the way back to the couple’s first meeting in Ibiza in 2004.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • This scenery became the setting for the 2015 marital drama By the Sea, written, directed by, and starring Jolie and produced by and starring Pitt.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Espoused.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/espoused. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.

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