estate
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Fudge scrambled for money from a different account, not wanting to touch what her husband had recently received from his mother’s estate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 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
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
The state of Connecticut said his estate owed $13.2 million in estate and gift taxes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
In part out of respect for the former president, these troops never occupied the estate, which was still home to an enslaved community, some of whom had begun to escape the plantation.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
When Anderson died more than a decade ago, the Connecticut estate tax kicked in for estates valued above $2 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
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
In fact, estates with little or no money can sometimes be the most difficult to administer because debts, creditors and property issues still have to be addressed.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
The area is lined with sweeping dunes and waterfront estates that make it comparable to Cape Cod and the Hamptons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
It was a government-funded, inner-city secondary school in the Islington neighborhood, not far from a set of council estates, which is what public-housing projects are called in England.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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 Trollope, Anthony
There is many an estated lord couldn't reach you out a fourpenny bit.
From New Irish Comedies by Gregory, Lady
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 Trollope, Anthony
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
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 Godkin, James
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