estate
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The development, Forest City, is a symbol of China’s real estate bust, defined by overborrowing and overbuilding at home and abroad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Other states, such as California, have laws discouraging selling by only resetting values for local real estate taxes when properties change hands.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
The family kept the Fair Oaks home and purchased another $9.1-million estate in Marin County in 2024, where they primarily live and their four children attend school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Having grown up on a council estate in Belfast, Craig moved to Manchester in 2003 at the age of 18 to study politics and modern history at the University of Manchester.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
They were Custis dower slaves, and if they escaped, he would have to repay the Custis estate.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Natasha Kerrigan, the chief estates and infrastructure officer for the MSENFT, said it was the first increase in three years and some visitors would not have to pay for parking.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 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
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
They have also been helped by an army of gamekeepers, estate workers and volunteers from neighbouring estates.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
When a commission was convened in 1897 to investigate the conditions on the estates, Bechu—the Indian the planters hated—came before the judges to share his evidence.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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
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
Roger North tells us that “they admitted all strangers that were confidingly introduced, for it was a main end of their institutions to make proselytes, especially of the raw estated youth newly come to town.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
He was an estated gentleman, and songs were made about his family.
From Three Plays by Colum, Padraic
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 Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
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