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estate

[ih-stayt] / ɪˈsteɪt /




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Arey has worked in real estate, public advocacy and community engagement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Lemssouguer, a Moroccan-born mathematician who lives in a 400-year-old Tudor estate outside London and raises rare parrots, is renowned in the rough-and-tumble world of distressed-debt trading for placing bigger-than-usual bets that can move markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Your husband had many people who were there for him, and he adjusted his estate plan accordingly.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

It sits on the same industrial estate James' father walked through to work each day.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

That well-tended estate was the very opposite of ramshackle, with no failing crops to be found, only daffodils in bright yellow bloom and the swelling green buds of tulips, full of promise.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Visitors to Ireland are often surprised by the number of prehistoric burial monuments that stand like apparitions beside roaring highways or humming industrial estates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

For families with complex estates, consolidating accounts and assets under one trustee can help everything run more smoothly.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

Ravi and I went for walks in the tea estates near town.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

When Councillor Holmes comes down at the assizes, I'll lay a case before him, and I'll wager a trifle, Peter, you will turn out to be an estated gentleman.'

From Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

But Thaddeus, otherwise Thady Macdermot, being an estated gentleman, must have a gentleman's residence on his estate, and the house of Ballycloran was accordingly built.

From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope

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

From Three Plays by Padraic Colum

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

They admitted all strangers that were confidingly introduced; for, it was a main end of their institution to make proselytes, especially of the raw estated youths newly come to town.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott


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