deed
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After settling into their custom abode, Biles—who is listed on the deed alongside her mother, Nellie—put the property on the market for $1.2 million.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Now that they have officially settled into their custom abode, Biles—who is listed on the deed alongside her mother, Nellie—has put the Spring home on the market for $1.2 million.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 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
Every deed and flood map, every blue dot on every phone originates from it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
In spite of her brave deed and fighting words, she was frightened.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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Rantzen also devised and presented Hearts of Gold, a programme that celebrated previously unknown people who had been responsible for good deeds.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
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
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
I’m going to have to do more than three good deeds for this one!
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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Keys come with deeded ownership to a sliver of non-buildable beachfront.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
“We have Intracoastal access, seven boat slips, and private deeded beach access,” Cameron said.
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
It was too bad she hadn’t made it clear that day at the store that Grandpa deeded her the furniture, too.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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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
Many people spoke against the general idea of deeding public property to private interests, though none called for the statue’s removal.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
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
It was all his besotted foolishness, you know to think of a sane man deeding away seventy acres right in the heart of his tract of two thousand.
From The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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