deed
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You don’t have to argue about it, because the deed is done, but it’s enough information for your mother to quietly mull over after the fact.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Last week, Cleanaway said EQT was continuing its due diligence and remained committed to entering an implementation deed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
At the moment I get the call alerting me that the deed is done, that Wiatt is officially settled out, I’m driving down Rodeo Drive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Officials contend the discrepancy between the computer count and the paper tally is “a good deed that went punished” — the result of exhausted officials being handed an extra-credit project they couldn’t quite execute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
The parrot flies off, not wanting to watch, and the captain, before he gives the order to do the deed, leans close to me.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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Not many recall his reported invocation of another work of Sanskrit poetry that reads, “In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame/The good deeds a man has done before defend him.”
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Soprano Lise Davidsen was a mercurial Lady Macbeth, pushing her husband into dark deeds yet with more sides to her than her steely, ringing high notes would suggest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Being an executor is not a job for the faint of heart, but payable- and transfer-on-death deeds certainly simplify matters.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Every year new movies and TV shows dramatising Mao's life beam the message of his great deeds to public.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
He regained his reason and saw that his disgrace in not winning the arms had been but a shadow as compared with the same his own deeds had drawn down upon him.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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Keys come with deeded ownership to a sliver of non-buildable beachfront.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Each residence will also include deeded beach access, allowing homeowners to enjoy both ocean and riverfront living.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026
The federal government eventually deeded the lighthouse to Del Norte County, which now leases it to the nonprofit for $1 a month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025
He was sentenced to probation for four years and deeded the property back to the town in 2014.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2025
A Boston philanthropist had deeded to Hampton Institute a former plantation named Shellbanks Farm, which served as an agricultural laboratory for Negro and Indian students at the school.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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“I’m wondering, have you ever planned on deeding any of your personal property or property of the Smithsonian to any of these tribes?” he asked Hartig.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
I settled my father’s estate, but found a will deeding a mobile home to his stepson.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 7, 2026
The state’s agreement to take down the pedestal is a condition of deeding ownership of the site to the city of Richmond, which it agreed this month to do.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2021
The deeding of the land, which was given to the commonwealth in the 19th century, was a request from the city so that the parcel could come under local control, Yarmosky said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2021
The transaction was to be kept a secret between us, and he was to assist me in selling when it came the proper time, by deeding direct to my purchaser.
From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Frances Fuller Victor
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