estate
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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
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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
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"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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