Thesaurus results for WIDOWER

widower

noun

as in husband

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Recent Examples of widower My friends had made the man sound an ancient mariner, an invalid widower, near dead from a lurid litany of injuries. —

Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026 The widower now lives comfortably in a mobile home park. —

Paula Span, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026 Roth accounts aren't subject to RMDs so a surviving spouse wouldn't have to continue receiving RMD income that would immediately boost the widow or widower into a higher tax bracket when filing a single, rather than joint, tax return. —

Medora Lee, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026 That feeling was especially poignant for mission commander Reid Wiseman, a NASA astronaut and widower who, shortly before the NBC News interview, had spoken with his two teenage daughters—his first chance to speak with them since launch. —

Lee Billings, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for widower

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Set in 1962, a boy roughly Travolta’s age voyages from New York to Los Angeles on a series of hopping flights with his mother, who is hoping to land a rich husband or a good Hollywood role in that order.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2026
Jolie's middle child with ex-husband Brad Pitt graduated from Spelman College, which held its commencement on Sunday, May 17, with a bachelor's degree in psychology, according to social media video.

— Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 18 May 2026