estate
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Kardashian and former spouse Kanye West bought a multimillion-dollar Hidden Hills estate in 2014.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
In one of the more unexpected launches this summer, Sunderland have collaborated with the Elvis Presley estate to release this striking kit in a colourway synonymous with the King's early years in Louisiana.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Webb, from Steve Gooch estate agents, said demand from buyers moving out of cities had helped transform perceptions of the area.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Sixteen states and the District of Columbia impose estate or inheritance taxes or both.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
If her love knows those books about knights, and she insists on marrying him, my entire estate shall be given to charity.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
When Anderson died more than a decade ago, the Connecticut estate tax kicked in for estates valued above $2 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
I’m a writer who has been sent out on assignment to the stucco estates of suburban Los Angeles to profile a young socialist named Hasan Piker.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
In fact, estates with little or no money can sometimes be the most difficult to administer because debts, creditors and property issues still have to be addressed.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
The North Korean leader, based on satellite-imagery estimates, owns more than a dozen luxury estates across the impoverished nation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
“It appears not: I fancy neither she nor her sister have very large fortunes. Old Lord Ingram’s estates were chiefly entailed, and the eldest son came in for everything almost.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
"I don't exactly see to what extent we should have been liable—whether only the estated property, or also all funded moneys."
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Lever, Charles James
At the institution many of the chief estated gentlemen of the kingdom were selected for the dignity.
From Collections and Recollections by Russell, George William Erskine
When Barrington was a great estated gentleman with a vast fortune at his command, it cost him wonderfully little thought to contract a loan, or even to sell a farm.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
There is many an estated lord couldn't reach you out a fourpenny bit.
From New Irish Comedies by Gregory, Lady
In connection with each of these settlements Pynar uses the phrase, 'I find planted and estated.'
From The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times by Godkin, James
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