as in wife
a married woman in charge of a household
She was career-minded and never intended to be a 1950s style housewife.
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The lead, a mild-mannered housewife and mother of five (well-deserved lead actress nominee Fernanda Torres), looks fragile but uses her particular set of skills — dignity, warmth, presentation — to strike back in ways the dictatorship doesn’t know how to parry.
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Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
At age 90, the University of Chicago emeritus professor stood demurely before an audience of local teachers, plumbers, children and housewives explaining complex diagrams and math equations on an overhead projector.
—Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025
Bob clarified that all the traitors agreed a housewife should go and that Dorinda would be the first.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 14 Jan. 2025
Jean-Baptiste delivers this utterance with the hollowness of someone who’s just come back from a war instead of a housewife and mother who picks fights with employees at a furniture store.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
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Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
At age 90, the University of Chicago emeritus professor stood demurely before an audience of local teachers, plumbers, children and housewives explaining complex diagrams and math equations on an overhead projector.
—Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025
Bob clarified that all the traitors agreed a housewife should go and that Dorinda would be the first.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 14 Jan. 2025
Jean-Baptiste delivers this utterance with the hollowness of someone who’s just come back from a war instead of a housewife and mother who picks fights with employees at a furniture store.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Housewife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/housewife. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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