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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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