estate
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Discussions about a possible reboot of the show began in 2020, and studio Warner Bros spent months negotiating with Crichton's estate.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Have you received any formal notice from the court or the executor about your father’s estate?
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
A decline in new data centers would likely slow down overall construction employment, at a time when building other types of commercial real estate, such as apartments and office buildings, is contracting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
"Now envision chandeliers all over the ceiling," the former real estate magnate sighed, speaking against a backdrop of a huge American flag.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 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
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They were grandees of enormous estates where cattle mostly tended themselves until they were rounded up and sold for their hides, which came to be called “Yankee dollars.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
It’s also not hard to imagine the estates of Big Mama Thornton and Arthur Crudup — should any such entities exist — scoffing at those headlines.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
Robert Romanoff, a trust and estates lawyer at Levenfeld Pearlstein in Chicago, said he has included provisions in premarital agreements requiring that a business-owning spouse commission a compensation study.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
For families with complex estates, consolidating accounts and assets under one trustee can help everything run more smoothly.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
Cardamon Kings, Coffee Counts and Rubber Barons—old boarding-school buddies—came down from their lonely, far-flung estates and sipped chilled beer at the Sailing Club.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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"Likening theyselves to the quality, as though they was estated folk, or the like o' that!" said Mrs. Guffern.
From Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
There he lived like an estated gentleman, for Prairie du Pont was then nothing but a cluster of tenants around his feet.
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
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
Roger North tells us that “they admitted all strangers that were confidingly introduced, for it was a main end of their institutions to make proselytes, especially of the raw estated youth newly come to town.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
He was an estated gentleman, and songs were made about his family.
From Three Plays by Padraic Colum
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