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Recent Examples of hausfrau
The German actress could draft off her own Lead Actress campaign to score two nominations in the same year — a feat last pulled off by Scarlett Johansson, who in a weird bit of Oscar symmetry also got her Supporting nod for playing a German hausfrau in World War II.
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Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024
Deborah Greenspan, an energetic hausfrau whose principal cause is resettling immigrants, has decided to host an inventive, and obnoxious, dinner party.
—Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
Harry's alter ego is a dull breadwinner who, like most male suburbanites, bores his hausfrau (Jamie Lee Curtis) with the minutiae of his drab job.
—Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2019
Her father was a music teacher, her mother a hausfrau or a housewife.
—Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 3 Apr. 2018
Being a mother involves being an efficient hausfrau.
—John Richardson, Town & Country, 13 Oct. 2015
Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024
Deborah Greenspan, an energetic hausfrau whose principal cause is resettling immigrants, has decided to host an inventive, and obnoxious, dinner party.
—Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
Harry's alter ego is a dull breadwinner who, like most male suburbanites, bores his hausfrau (Jamie Lee Curtis) with the minutiae of his drab job.
—Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2019
Her father was a music teacher, her mother a hausfrau or a housewife.
—Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 3 Apr. 2018
Being a mother involves being an efficient hausfrau.
—John Richardson, Town & Country, 13 Oct. 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hausfrau
Noun
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Even my mother, a housewife who grew up on a farm.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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The crux of the cast was assembled around Marks’ friend group in New York City — not the idea of a show with the offspring of housewives.—
McKinley Franklin,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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His father was a timber merchant and his mother a homemaker.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
Footwear News,
20 Oct. 2025
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Her mother was a homemaker and photographer, and her father was in real estate and civil engineering.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Satterfield, the Murdaugh family's longtime housekeeper, tragically died in February 2018 following a fall at the Murdaugh estate.—
Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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Brown’s description stands in stark contrast to the housekeeper’s own harrowing account of what happened.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Hausfrau.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hausfrau. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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