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estate

[ih-steyt] / ɪˈsteɪt /




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After we had spoken, we walked down to the lake on the estate where, on a wooded island, Diana was laid to rest.

From BBC Sep. 20, 2026

At another with Carolina Herrera, guests were transported by luxury train to an estate in the British countryside for dinner in a vineyard.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

It’s worth adding that Buffett has arranged for his estate to be invested in a low-cost S&P 500 index fund after he has gone.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

Dragonflies began after Harrison returned to England, where he’d grown up on his father’s Friar Park estate, following the death of his grandmother, who famously raised George Harrison’s widow, Olivia Harrison, in Hawthorne.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

All over the estate, nests were being feathered and cozy family-sized burrows dug.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

Drained peatlands, industrial timber estates and oil palm plantations can leave landscapes more vulnerable to burning, with fires often recurring in the same areas.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Originally developed as the summer playground for some of Cleveland’s wealthiest industrial titans, the village is defined by grand, Gilded Age lakefront estates and intact original carriage houses.

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

There have been rumors that wealthy people in the Philippines who own private estates in the rain forest have been importing African animals illegally, releasing them into the Philippine jungle, and hunting them.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

"Likening theyselves to the quality, as though they was estated folk, or the like o' that!" said Mrs. Guffern.

From Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

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

This system was, however, especially disadvantageous to one class of estated proprietors, the Municipalities.

From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Sir Henry Sumner Maine

Darby: You letting on to be an estated magistrate and my own cousin and such a great generation of a man.

From New Irish Comedies by Lady Gregory

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




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