estate
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After the Journal’s story, members of the House Oversight Committee received a copy of the birthday book, provided by lawyers from Epstein’s estate, containing the letter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
Amy Allen’s estate plan isn’t focused only on where her money will go when she dies.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
Arey has worked in real estate, public advocacy and community engagement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Real estate management firm Colliers International Group estimates current senior living demand at around 2-2.2 million units in India while only around 25,000 units are available.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
They were Custis dower slaves, and if they escaped, he would have to repay the Custis estate.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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
“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
Messages run in and out of estates all the time.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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
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
When Barrington was a great estated gentleman with a vast fortune at his command, it cost him wonderfully little thought to contract a loan, or even to sell a farm.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
In fact, Gleeson stood before the public as a kind of guardian of estated property,—the providence of dowagers, widows, and younger children!
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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