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deed

[deed] / did /




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You may be better off opting for a transfer-on-death deed for your house instead of leaving it in your will.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

If you were born or adopted in Northern Ireland, external, you can either change your name by deed poll or recording a change of name in the presence of a legal representative, which costs £35.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Is her mother’s company really doing this to test out proprietary technology while ostensibly doing a good deed for a grieving parent?

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 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

Did cutting Mrs. Borkowski’s toenails count as a good deed?

From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo

But I do believe to effectively assemble a thriller, a writer must contemplate all that is possible in the present to realistically construct what dark, fearful deeds are plausible in the future.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 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

Having considered this matter very superficially, historians on the one hand admire these deeds of his, and on the other condemn the main cause of them.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

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

The tribe was burdened with cleaning up decades of pollution before the land could be deeded into trust by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

From Seattle Times Apr. 11, 2024

He actually deeded it over to his brother who lives in South Carolina.

From Salon Aug. 21, 2023

First the document reminded us that the old Toy house and furnishings had been deeded over “to my beloved wife, Love Simpson Blakeslee” at the time of their marriage.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

I settled my father’s estate, but found a will deeding a mobile home to his stepson.

From MarketWatch Feb. 7, 2026

The board took no action Wednesday but suggested that it will continue to pursue the possibility of deeding the statue to groups such as the SCV or United Daughters of the Confederacy.

From Washington Post Sep. 22, 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

Aunt Corinne went through an impressive pantomime of deeding and double-deeding herself not to holler.

From Old Caravan Days by Mary Hartwell Catherwood




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