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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

If you were born or adopted in Northern Ireland, external, you can either change your name by deed poll or recording a change of name in the presence of a legal representative, which costs £35.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Is her mother’s company really doing this to test out proprietary technology while ostensibly doing a good deed for a grieving parent?

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

My father put my brother on the deed to his house.

From MarketWatch Jun. 24, 2026

This was the assassin’s first chance to describe his deed, and the actor in him probably made the most of the dramatic story.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

One in particular struck me, telling us that before you go to bed, review all your deeds of the day three times before you fall asleep.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

To meet the five-year rule, Medicaid generally requires five years of bank-account statements, reverse mortgage records and property deeds.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 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

His real-life geniality provides a stark contrast to some of his most famous roles as monstrous men committing equally hideous deeds.

From Salon Jul. 17, 2026

If you consider his deeds you will find them all very grand, and some even extraordinary.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

The Brick applied and was deeded the statue, taking physical possession on Jan. 6, 2022.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 24, 2026

If this property is indeed still titled in your parents’ names, and was never actually deeded to the trust, it could still be a probate asset under the executor’s control.

From MarketWatch Jan. 30, 2026

The tribe was burdened with cleaning up decades of pollution before the land could be deeded into trust by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

From Seattle Times Apr. 11, 2024

He actually deeded it over to his brother who lives in South Carolina.

From Salon Aug. 21, 2023

“He has deeded me the house,” said Miss Love.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

I settled my father’s estate, but found a will deeding a mobile home to his stepson.

From MarketWatch Feb. 7, 2026

If residents fully support transferring public property to private interests, she said, the board will schedule a hearing on deeding the land under the statue.

From Washington Post Sep. 20, 2022

His chairmanship was a capstone of a long career serving his people, particularly as a spokesperson for his tribe and point man on deeding the tribe’s first land into trust and developing a casino.

From Seattle Times May 30, 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

Next, he demonstrated how crazy he really was, by deeding over to his family, unsolicited, the ten acres on Tarwater Flat, the house, barn, outbuildings, and water-rights. 

From The Red One by Jack London




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