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[deed] / did /




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Now that they have officially settled into their custom abode, Biles—who is listed on the deed alongside her mother, Nellie—has put the Spring home on the market for $1.2 million.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

"The way this deed was committed makes this case unusual, as well as the manner of the confession," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

You can also add a transfer-on-death deed to your home.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

Officials contend the discrepancy between the computer count and the paper tally is “a good deed that went punished” — the result of exhausted officials being handed an extra-credit project they couldn’t quite execute.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

If we didn’t do it, he said, the Ladies’ Society of the Methodist church was likely to take it on as a good deed.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

According to one present, the prime minister said: "We need to be on the front foot. We need to be bolder. Let's get on and do things. It's about deeds not words."

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

People are commonly greeted by wishing that their names be inscribed in the Book of Life—because on Rosh Hashanah God examines our past deeds and determines our individual fates for the following year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Every year new movies and TV shows dramatising Mao's life beam the message of his great deeds to public.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

Buckingham’s office is now surveying state tracts in the area and “conducting a thorough review of relevant titles and deeds to better determine the location and extent of any potential trespass,” she added.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

“Most celebrity is fleeting, but when you’re a scythe, your defining deeds stand forever. Take my advice, Citra, and remain undefined.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Keys come with deeded ownership to a sliver of non-buildable beachfront; they often stay in the same family for generations, though a handful sell on the open market each year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

If this property is indeed still titled in your parents’ names, and was never actually deeded to the trust, it could still be a probate asset under the executor’s control.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 30, 2026

Rogers’ widow, Betty, deeded the ranch to the state just before her own death in 1944.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025

He was sentenced to probation for four years and deeded the property back to the town in 2014.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2025

A Boston philanthropist had deeded to Hampton Institute a former plantation named Shellbanks Farm, which served as an agricultural laboratory for Negro and Indian students at the school.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

“I’m wondering, have you ever planned on deeding any of your personal property or property of the Smithsonian to any of these tribes?” he asked Hartig.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

I settled my father’s estate, but found a will deeding a mobile home to his stepson.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 7, 2026

The state’s agreement to take down the pedestal is a condition of deeding ownership of the site to the city of Richmond, which it agreed this month to do.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2021

The deeding of the land, which was given to the commonwealth in the 19th century, was a request from the city so that the parcel could come under local control, Yarmosky said.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2021

The farce of deeding the corporation's sections to these fictitious purchasers was solemnly gone through with at Ruggles's office, the Railroad guaranteeing them possession.

From The Octopus : A story of California by Frank Norris


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