deed
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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
The cheaper option is by unenrolled deed poll, which a person can do by themselves or through a private company for a fee.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Here are some key questions: Will your name go on the deed alone?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Ms. Brown keeps yellowed documents from the farm’s early days, including the 1741 deed to the property from Lord Thomas Fairfax, who owned millions of acres in Virginia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
He spent a large part of his life expiating one unfortunate deed after another and never rebelling against the almost impossible demands made upon him.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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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
But I do believe to effectively assemble a thriller, a writer must contemplate all that is possible in the present to realistically construct what dark, fearful deeds are plausible in the future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Hiddleston notes that “one great gift of Pompeii is that the Romans didn’t have paper, so the walls, the columns, the houses, the public buildings are covered in writing: deeds, business contracts, advertisements, gossip, doodles.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
"In Gaza, even those who dedicate their lives to helping others are not spared. But good deeds cannot be killed. They live on in the hearts of the people."
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Here each day the gods came, passing over the quivering rainbow bridge to sit beside the well and pass judgment on the deeds of men.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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“We have Intracoastal access, seven boat slips, and private deeded beach access,” Cameron said.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026
The federal government eventually deeded the lighthouse to Del Norte County, which now leases it to the nonprofit for $1 a month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025
Armed Puyallup activists occupy Cushman Hospital in Tacoma for a week and succeed in getting it deeded to the tribe.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
He actually deeded it over to his brother who lives in South Carolina.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2023
It was originally deeded as “Good Luck,” but never quite lived up to the name.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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I settled my father’s estate, but found a will deeding a mobile home to his stepson.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 7, 2026
County supervisors have spent all year teasing the idea of deeding the monument to a private group after the SCV offered to take it on.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2022
His chairmanship was a capstone of a long career serving his people, particularly as a spokesperson for his tribe and a leader in deeding the tribe’s first land into trust and developing a casino.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2022
More precisely, I thought about Lincoln signing a minor piece of legislation deeding the Yosemite Valley to the state of California.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2019
Aunt Corinne went through an impressive pantomime of deeding and double-deeding herself not to holler.
From Old Caravan Days by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
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