deed
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Alas, no good deed goes unprotested by a domestic special interest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The cheaper option is by unenrolled deed poll, which a person can do by themselves or through a private company for a fee.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Caltrans staff will next record the deed transferring the title from the state of California to Kai Poma, which is expected to happen any day, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
That it hasn’t seems ironic, given that the Christian ideal of Jesus is in both word and deed a seeker of justice.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
He's the one who smuggles me my news stories, even a book every now and again, in exchange for helping him with this dark deed or that one.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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To meet the five-year rule, Medicaid generally requires five years of bank-account statements, reverse mortgage records and property deeds.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Hiddleston notes that “one great gift of Pompeii is that the Romans didn’t have paper, so the walls, the columns, the houses, the public buildings are covered in writing: deeds, business contracts, advertisements, gossip, doodles.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
His real-life geniality provides a stark contrast to some of his most famous roles as monstrous men committing equally hideous deeds.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
"In Gaza, even those who dedicate their lives to helping others are not spared. But good deeds cannot be killed. They live on in the hearts of the people."
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
I wish to leave unmentioned the other deeds of his, since all were similar and all succeeded well.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Each residence will also include deeded beach access, allowing homeowners to enjoy both ocean and riverfront living.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026
The statue was deeded to the Brick — which wrote a competitive proposal to get it — for the sole purpose of transformation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025
He was sentenced to probation for four years and deeded the property back to the town in 2014.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2025
Armed Puyallup activists occupy Cushman Hospital in Tacoma for a week and succeed in getting it deeded to the tribe.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
Lillian spoke of the Old South when Bull was in earshot as though it were a private garden deeded to her in a last heroic proclamation by the Confederate Congress.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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I settled my father’s estate, but found a will deeding a mobile home to his stepson.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 7, 2026
Mountain Lake Lodge offers a range of accommodations, including rooms in the main lodge and cabins named by the families who built and owned the getaways before deeding them back to the property.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022
His chairmanship was a capstone of a long career serving his people, particularly as a spokesperson for his tribe and a leader in deeding the tribe’s first land into trust and developing a casino.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2022
More precisely, I thought about Lincoln signing a minor piece of legislation deeding the Yosemite Valley to the state of California.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2019
This brought about the loss of their church property, the Governor, in accordance with the express wording of the patent grant of April 2, 1771, deeding Jerusalem Church to the Episcopalians.
From American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by F. (Friedrich) Bente
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