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estate

[ih-stayt] / ɪˈsteɪt /




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For several days after the arrest, police were seen searching Mountbatten-Windsor's property at Marsh Farm in Sandringham and at his former home, Royal Lodge, on the Windsor estate.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

The fintech serves more than 12,000 entities across private equity, private credit, infrastructure and real estate, according to its website.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Zhang lives in Irvine with her husband, Edric Ding, who is also a real estate agent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Ellison has become known as a “Malibu real estate mogul,” buying his first Carbon Beach property in 2002.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

After President James Madison’s second term ended in March 1817, the Madisons returned to Montpelier, their estate in Orange, Virginia.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

It is drawn from the King's private money, which includes his income from the Duchy of Lancaster, private estates and his own investments and inheritances.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 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

Casa Encantada — a 40,000-square-foot Bel-Air mega-mansion considered one of L.A.’s most iconic estates — has a new owner: Peter Thiel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Powers to implement the scheme will rest with mayors because "they know which firms are hiring, which colleges are delivering, which estates have been left behind," Healey said.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Tycho also quarrelled with some of his tenants on the mainland and got into trouble with the ruling Council for neglecting the maintenance of a chapel that formed part of his estates.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

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

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

This system was, however, especially disadvantageous to one class of estated proprietors, the Municipalities.

From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Sir Henry Sumner Maine

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

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




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