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estate

[ih-stayt] / ɪˈsteɪt /




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The next hearing is scheduled for Dec. 7, when permanent guardianship of the estate will be decided; however Kaya does not need to be present.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Emergency services were called to reports of a vehicle fire at 23:30 BST on Sunday close to an industrial estate and retail park in the centre of the town.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Her ex-fiancé feared that the same person would continue to “misappropriate” items belonging to the actor’s estate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

One estate saleswoman told my wife and me that the items we won’t take with us are worth under $6,000 total, so she’d pass on an estate sale.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

The country estate on Quenz Lake was so picturesque that one saboteur-in-training thought, at first, he was at a country club.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

“I have seen plenty of ups and downs in grape and wine supply,” said Juan Munoz-Oca, the estates director for Marchesi Antinori’s U.S. business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Liverpool-born McGovern focused on adult prison estates in the first two series of BBC hit Time.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Official figures show that in 2024-25 around 30,400 deaths in the UK left estates which were liable for inheritance tax.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Casa Encantada — a 40,000-square-foot Bel-Air mega-mansion considered one of L.A.’s most iconic estates — has a new owner: Peter Thiel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

The stone sign in front of what looked like a new development read the prema estates.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben

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

There were deeds, and bonds, and leases, rent-rolls, and valuations, and powers of attorney, and all the other imposing accessories of estated property.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever

"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 Charles James Lever

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

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




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