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estate

[ih-steyt] / ɪˈsteɪt /




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She was buried on an island in the Spencers' Althorp estate, rather than a graveyard - and the book describes how a bishop was brought to consecrate the ground to make it possible.

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

“Lenders have gotten a lot more aggressive,” said Ryan Cotton, Bain Capital’s head of real estate.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 21, 2026

“Of course it could be frustrating,” said her daughter Brigitte, an elegant, soft-spoken scholar of Semitic languages who has managed Caland’s estate since her death in 2019.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 21, 2026

At the time, the Hollywood mogul and actress unveiled ambitious plans to dramatically overhaul the estate with a 27,000-square-foot, five-story riding facility featuring a domed roof and underground horse stables.

From MarketWatch Sep. 21, 2026

Thomas Jefferson inherited approximately 5,000 acres, including the Shadwell property and what would later become his Monticello estate.

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

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

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

Moreover, he’s a chess-playing, gourmet cooking, crime fiction aficionado and jazz lover equally comfortable on the mean streets of East Daygo and in the lush life of La Jolla Farms estates.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

Much less populous Iowa pursued 16,279 estates and recovered $25 million from 3,397 of them.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

Thousands of slaves still toiled on vast estates in the hills, growing wheat and olives, herding sheep and goats, and mining salt and copper.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

Every class, from the estated proprietor to the humblest peasant, is loud in asserting that the story is an infamous falsehood.

From Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

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

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

There were deeds, and bonds, and leases, rent-rolls, and valuations, and powers of attorney, and all the other imposing accessories of estated property.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever




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