estate
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In one of the more unexpected launches this summer, Sunderland have collaborated with the Elvis Presley estate to release this striking kit in a colourway synonymous with the King's early years in Louisiana.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Webb, from Steve Gooch estate agents, said demand from buyers moving out of cities had helped transform perceptions of the area.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
In June, the high court made it easier for the Anderson estate to prove its case and ordered a new trial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
“The estate feels very strongly that the evidence paints a different picture,” said Julie Lavoie, a lawyer for the estate who took the case to the Connecticut Supreme Court.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
He claimed to be looking for real estate and a horse to buy.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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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
It could face "fierce opposition" if that means people who would not have faced inheritance tax will now have their estates taxed, the paper adds.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Their claims of competitive harm are as sprawling as Hollywood mogul estates, including that the deal will reduce diversity in viewpoints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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
He'd returned from Rosby to deliver a fresh levy of spearmen recruited from Lord Cyles's estates and resume his command of the City Watch.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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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
When Councillor Holmes comes down at the assizes, I'll lay a case before him, and I'll wager a trifle, Peter, you will turn out to be an estated gentleman.'
From Lord Kilgobbin by Lever, Charles James
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 Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
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 Lever, Charles James
"Likening theyselves to the quality, as though they was estated folk, or the like o' that!" said Mrs. Guffern.
From Barchester Towers by Trollope, Anthony
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