estate
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His policy is inside an irrevocable trust set up for his children—a structure often recommended by advisers—meaning it also wouldn’t be subject to estate taxes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Billionaire Trump has used American media to his advantage over the years as a provocative real estate developer in New York.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
His father, Charles, had expanded the New Jersey real estate development business his grandfather, a Polish Holocaust survivor, had begun after starting out as a construction laborer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
BBC News understands that an Amazon delivery facility based in the industrial estate has not been directly impacted by the fire, but staff have been evacuated as precaution.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Some crafty bond market person had gazed upon the subprime mortgage sprawl, as an ambitious real estate developer might gaze upon Oakland, and found an opportunity to rebrand some of the turf.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
She was one of the few Chinese students, and was surrounded by scions of centuries-old wine estates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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
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
I have never been to one of their estates, save for Hollow Hall.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
"It is upon estated property I intend to raise this loan, sir," said his Lordship, angrily.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day 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
At the institution many of the chief estated gentlemen of the kingdom were selected for the dignity.
From Collections and Recollections by George William Erskine Russell
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
When Barrington was a great estated gentleman with a vast fortune at his command, it cost him wonderfully little thought to contract a loan, or even to sell a farm.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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