estate
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The winning bidder of the Los Angeles estate was an LLC tied to the Palantir and PayPal co-founder, whose identity remained a secret for months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
“Live like a star in this legendary estate where timeless elegance meets Hollywood prestige.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
In the first phase of its probe, the regulator looked into several loans granted to collapsed Austrian real estate empire Signa.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
It came as no surprise to Salera that In-N-Out is continuing to add locations in California despite the rising minimum wage and high real estate costs, because it is the chain’s home market.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
More than sixty million dollars’ worth of real estate was built here last year, he said, and it’s all because of the World’s Fair.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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This streamlined process allows estates like your mother’s to be settled more quickly and at a fraction of the cost of traditional probate.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
The government said it was "determined to rebuild trust" with farmers and that most estates were unaffected by the tax hike.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Led by trained volunteers and held over coast paths and garden estates to town parks, the walks range from 10 to 90 minutes and are aimed at all abilities.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Originally developed as the summer playground for some of Cleveland’s wealthiest industrial titans, the village is defined by grand, Gilded Age lakefront estates and intact original carriage houses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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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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
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
It was all the difference between rank and obscurity—between wealth and want—between the condition of an estated gentleman and the assumption of a mere pretender.
From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) 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
"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
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