estate
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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
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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
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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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