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estate

[ih-stayt] / ɪˈsteɪt /




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“Interest rates go up, interest rates go down — but in general, real estate is a long-term buy,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

Some of those living in a new-build housing estate nearby are concerned about the project, including James George, 32, who said he was worried about the impact on the environment and his home.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

These days, Cavallari is residing in a beautiful Tennessee estate after offloading the “divorce house” she found comfort in following her split in 2020.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Early on, he took an interest in computers, and, he said, in high school programmed custom real estate software for his uncles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Especially when your dad is George Rowley, owner of Chokecherry Real Estate, the largest—and the only—real estate agency in Chokecherry and greater Shadbush County.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

Mohamed Elalfy, president of the Royal College of Opthalmologists, said services in Wales face a "number of long-standing challenges, including dilapidated estates, workforce shortages and poor IT infrastructure".

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Official data shows higher value estates pay the majority of the inheritance tax collected.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Parents should schedule a meeting, led by an estate attorney or family governance consultant for larger estates, to explain their estate plans to their heirs, revisiting the conversation as estate plans evolve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

After Madoc stole us from the human world, he brought us to his estates on Insmire, the Isle of Might, where the High King of Elfhame keeps his stronghold.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Had Thady Macdermot had ready money, it might have been well built; but though an estated gentleman, he had none.

From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope

You ain't above taking all our money and seeing us starve; and that when you have got everything round you here like an estated gentleman, as you are?'

From John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope

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

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

Darby: You letting on to be an estated magistrate and my own cousin and such a great generation of a man.

From New Irish Comedies by Lady Gregory


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