estate
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The demands grew into more serious threats, according to the records the news outlet cited, which the plaintiffs saw as an attempt to obtain money from the Parton estate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
“This case is not about the far larger Reiner family trusts, which hold the assets of Nick’s parents’ estate and the inheritances they left their children,” his attorneys argued in the motion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
I don’t even want to talk about her estate.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
"I wouldn't want to bring my three children up next to this industrial estate," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
“Jenny trained him how to do it for that real estate commercial.”
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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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
Set among the community’s grand estates, the club offers marina access, a pool deck, a private beach and fine dining.
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
She has been pushing for rules to protect caregiving children and to limit recovery from small estates, both of which would have helped Keller.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
“It appears not: I fancy neither she nor her sister have very large fortunes. Old Lord Ingram’s estates were chiefly entailed, and the eldest son came in for everything almost.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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They admitted all strangers that were confidingly introduced; for, it was a main end of their institution to make proselytes, especially of the raw estated youths newly come to town.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
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 Charles James Lever
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 don't exactly see to what extent we should have been liable—whether only the estated property, or also all funded moneys."
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever
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 Mary Hartwell Catherwood
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