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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
husband . - adjective
conserved ;used economically
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Examples
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Sestak, as Terry Madonna, director of the Franklin & Marshall College Center for Politics and Public Affairs noted, wisely "husbanded" his money till the end of the campaign, turning the election "into a five-week process rather than a twelve-week process."
Specter Turns To Ground Game To Avoid Coakley-Like Defeat 2010
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Sestak, as Terry Madonna, director of the Franklin & Marshall College Center for Politics and Public Affairs noted, wisely "husbanded" his money till the end of the campaign, turning the election "into a five-week process rather than a twelve-week process."
Specter Turns To Ground Game To Avoid Coakley-Like Defeat 2010
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Of water I drank my careful fill, and I calculated there was ten days 'supply if carefully husbanded.
Chapter 19 2010
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Wendell Berry in his anthology of essays, Bringing It to the Table, talks about the “communion between farmer as husband and the well-husbanded farm.”
Archive 2010-08-01 Olga Bonfiglio 2010
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Of water I drank my careful fill, and I calculated there was ten days 'supply if carefully husbanded.
Chapter 19 2010
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I do believe that growing up inside thirteen million acres of unfenced, never-husbanded land set up different rhythms in me.
A Conversation with Mark Spragg about An Unfinished Life 2010
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By taxing the hell out of your carefully-husbanded 401 (k).
Defending Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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* I wonder how much of this has to do with their positions (obviously Edwards had a mind like few others, but one has to take into account also that he husbanded and cultivated that gift responsibly): Edwards was a public man in his capacity as a pastor; can it be said that Whitefield was only a pastor in his capacity as a public man? from → Observations
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By taxing the hell out of your carefully-husbanded 401 (k).
Defending Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Wendell Berry in his anthology of essays, Bringing It to the Table, talks about the “communion between farmer as husband and the well-husbanded farm.”
Farm Journal: Harvesting, Husbandry, and Hoof Trimming Olga Bonfiglio 2010
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