estate
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The city and team may not agree on who should pay for them, and real estate development around the stadium could be part of the solution for funding a new or renovated stadium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Putting a home inside a trust is a common financial planning strategy for those looking to ease the burden on heirs or avoid estate taxes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
"On the top floor of a Haussmann-style building, the heat indoors can become truly unbearable," said Joseph Denke, an estate agent with FredeLion in Paris.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Perched on a hilltop, the original estate was built in 1953 by the famed architect Richard Neutra for his secretary, Dorothy Serulnic.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Then, a year and a half after Bobby’s death, Marilyn and Jinky traveled to Iceland again, this time to file a claim to his estate.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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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
While one of the estates has now changed hands, Combs still owns the second of his two Star Island homes.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
The charity said there was "a huge community effort" to halt the spread with gamekeepers and other staff from neighbouring estates.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
There have been rumors that wealthy people in the Philippines who own private estates in the rain forest have been importing African animals illegally, releasing them into the Philippine jungle, and hunting them.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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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
"It is upon estated property I intend to raise this loan, sir," said his Lordship, angrily.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
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
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 James Godkin
"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
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