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[deed] / did /




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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

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

“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

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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