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estate

[ih-steyt] / ɪˈsteɪt /




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As a first step, a planning application has been submitted to the local council to convert some currently vacant buildings in its walled garden into a community cafe and estate shop.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

For anyone out there who does want to leave their estate to charity, be careful about which charitable donations you choose.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

The Arboretum's long-term future has been secured through full integration with RBL, and every decision has been taken in the interests of the estate and all those who care deeply about it.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

“If you don’t have an estate plan with medical directives, you might be kept alive by artificial means, even if you’ve told everyone in the family you don’t want this to happen.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

Although his escape was a loss, Washington would not have to pay the Custis estate for Hercules.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Drained peatlands, industrial timber estates and oil palm plantations can leave landscapes more vulnerable to burning, with fires often recurring in the same areas.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Set among the community’s grand estates, the club offers marina access, a pool deck, a private beach and fine dining.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

Moreover, he’s a chess-playing, gourmet cooking, crime fiction aficionado and jazz lover equally comfortable on the mean streets of East Daygo and in the lush life of La Jolla Farms estates.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

She has been pushing for rules to protect caregiving children and to limit recovery from small estates, both of which would have helped Keller.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

He'd returned from Rosby to deliver a fresh levy of spearmen recruited from Lord Cyles's estates and resume his command of the City Watch.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Every class, from the estated proprietor to the humblest peasant, is loud in asserting that the story is an infamous falsehood.

From Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

He was an estated gentleman, and songs were made about his family.

From Three Plays by Padraic Colum

At the institution many of the chief estated gentlemen of the kingdom were selected for the dignity.

From Collections and Recollections by George William Erskine Russell

I mean, of course, of the elder branch, for there are swarms of the others, well to do and prosperous also, and with fine estated properties.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever

This system was, however, especially disadvantageous to one class of estated proprietors, the Municipalities.

From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Sir Henry Sumner Maine




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