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  • noun Plural form of ex-wife.

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Examples

  • Also in the generational mix: a pair of emotionally damaged children, two bitter ex-wives and various interloping lovers.

    In Brief: Mysteries 2012

  • I try to display sympathy and concern, but inside I'm smiling because I know, as I always have, that ex-wives, ex-husbands, ex-girlfriends, ex-lovers, ex-anythings make some of the best sources.

    'Can You Tell Me a Little About Your Ex-Husband?' Michael Rejebian 2012

  • Secret offshore bank accounts, broken love, the testimony of anguished ex-wives: "He wanted an open marriage."

    The No-Obama Drama Peggy Noonan 2012

  • Is he convincing the people who buy tickets to see his next movie, program their TV to watch his next TV project, and otherwise help him support his five children, two ex-wives and, who can forget, the goddesses?

    The TV Column: Let the Charlie Sheen Backlash begin 2011

  • All 3 ex-wives have had restraining orders against him.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • Through alternate, non-sequential snapshots of his past, we learn about his early life in the military, his 5 ex-wives, his estranged son, how and why he became a Bio-Repo man (a job nobody ever chooses willingly) and his relationship with Jake, a fellow soldier who he followed into the repossession business.

    REVIEW: The Repossession Mambo by Eric Garcia 2009

  • That experience, which remained bottled up inside me for years, has caused me problems my whole life—just ask my two ex-wives or my three sons, none of whom I ever allowed to be altar boys.

    Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011

  • That experience, which remained bottled up inside me for years, has caused me problems my whole life—just ask my two ex-wives or my three sons, none of whom I ever allowed to be altar boys.

    Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011

  • For example, at one point we learn that the narrator named his black market artiforg scanner after one of his ex-wives because "it could do any number of people at once".

    REVIEW: The Repossession Mambo by Eric Garcia 2009

  • If I remember correctly he told a woman who became one of his ex-wives that he was “filled with self loathing” in a chat room back in the early days of the internet.

    Think Progress » Rush Lies Again: ‘There Were Union Workers’ At Non-Union Mine Explosion 2010

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