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
Starting in 2017, the state tax auditor asked Anderson’s estate for all kinds of documents, from NetJets records to medical records to suss out which state he intended as home.
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
And it could pave the way for other families to more easily win income and estate tax audits in Connecticut and elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Their friends buried them under the maple trees of the estate.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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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
For some families with complex estates, consolidating accounts and assets under one trustee can help everything run more smoothly.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 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
They have also been helped by an army of gamekeepers, estate workers and volunteers from neighbouring estates.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Magnificence,” murmured Reznak mo Reznak, “we cannot know that these great nobles mean to join your enemies. More like they are simply making for their estates in the hills.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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"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 Lever, Charles James
You ain't above taking all our money and seeing us starve; and that when you have got everything round you here like an estated gentleman, as you are?'
From John Caldigate by Trollope, Anthony
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 Lever, Charles James
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 Scott, Walter, Sir
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 Lever, Charles James
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