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‘A husband can be dead.’

[⟨det husband.n⟩ dead.a]

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In Wikipedia:

On December 8, the Daily Mail quoted Anne Darwin as saying that, although she initially thought her husband was dead, he turned up at their home in 2003 and lived there secretly, and in an adjacent bedsit that she owned, for about three years.
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In the British National Corpus:

I have three children and my husband is dead.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Lets read that again “Something which OUTWEIGHS all of these’ ’ so if a person commits all three of these horrenodous acts for example the crim minal kills the husband then rapes the wife of the dead husband, then kills her and then proceded to to rape the child, all of this is less than the crime of “Shirk’ ’ or denying Allah.
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In Wikipedia:

Jack had feelings for her, but when he brings this up as she betrays him, she tells him that it would never have worked out as she couldn’t bring herself to live on a cop’s salary waiting for a call that would tell her her husband was dead.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

(Romans 7:2)’ ’ 39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.”
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In the British National Corpus:

I said, “My husband’s dead.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

’ ’ “Glenn’s wife gave it to me.” “That’s unbelievable, you told the lady her husband was dead and she gave you the beer?
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In Wikipedia:

In a long poem of 1562, Nicolas Hou l, laying stress on her love for architecture, likened Catherine to Artemisia, who had built the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, as a tomb for her dead husband.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

But my mom is a really good exception, what with crying with Lorna Tolentino while watching her getting interviewed about her dead husband, so I’d risk the colloquialism and call her a fangirl.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

And another movie called “Birth’ ’ that stars Nicole Kidman which is about a little boy who pretends to be her dead husband, and Nicole’s character begin to have a romantic relationship with that little boy, Nicole’s character takes a bath with him and everything.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A husband and wife from Hampton are dead after the motorcycle they were riding collided with a pickup truck.
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In Wikipedia:

Jackie and Callas then smash a paparazzo’s camera, which gives Jackie the power to communicate with her dead husband, who is heard as a disembodied voice.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

My mother – in – law in a catfight with her dead husband’s mistress.?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It still works sometimes, Like when Lexie reads outloud the letter of a man with shattered vocal chords or Izzie gives peace to a woman whose memory continues to reset that her dead husband will be coming for her soon.
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In Wikipedia:

In March 2009 she begins filming “Womb”, where she plays a woman who clones her dead husband.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The Lovely April Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime. – William Shakespeare Iron They tell her that her husband is dead, his body riddled with lead, his bones shot through with quicksilver, piercing tendon and muscle and marrow and delicate, golden heart (because he was shot at such a close range that the bullets ripped through like winter wind, ice – fanged and ruthless), and Sachiko does not break down and she does not scream and she does not cry.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A Minnesota woman who was injured in an attack in Beijing that left her husband dead was released from the Mayo Clinic on Tuesday, the clinic said.
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In Wikipedia:

He won the prize eight times, on one occasion with his tragedy, “Mausolus”, in the contest which the queen Artemisia of Caria had instituted in honor of her dead husband, Mausolus.
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In Wikipedia:

Whatever the reason, Proctor confronted Polly and Jim at Polly’s dead husband’s mill in the Oklahoma Territory, near Siloam Springs, Arkansas, on February 27.
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Queried on 2013-05-24.