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domicile

[dom-uh-sahyl, -suhl, doh-muh-] / ˈdɒm əˌsaɪl, -səl, ˈdoʊ mə- /


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“Establish Florida domicile first, cleanly and provably. Then time the big withdrawals for after that’s done. The home sale and the distribution strategy aren’t two decisions — they’re one decision with two moving parts.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 8, 2026

He dismissed the importance of the “one-time administrative” tasks like declaring Florida as his domicile, getting a Florida driver’s license and opening bank accounts there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

The majority opinion roundly rejected Alito and Thomas’ arguments about domicile.

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026

Companies like Spotify, Cloudflare, and Enterprise Products are excluded from the S&P 500 due to domicile, profitability, or corporate structure.

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026

With an indignant squawk, Rose led the way into their new domicile, tempted by a trail of grain.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

His co-author and Wharton economics colleague Kent Smetters says tools such as Zoom make it easier than before to move domiciles and avoid a state or local wealth tax.

From Barron's ● Jan. 3, 2026

Zhao himself kept to a series of international domiciles, apparently most recently in Dubai; the headquarters of the firm itself have been hard to pin down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2023

Trump has a taste for gilding everything from domiciles to escalators.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022

Spottiswoode has a good reason for poking around avian domiciles.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2022

Fact: Many of the domiciles in Century Village do not have family rooms with desks.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

Thomas read into that the requirement that their parents be domiciled here.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026

“Where you’re domiciled on Dec. 31 can determine which state taxes your entire retirement income for that year,” said Jeff Judge, a certified financial planner and managing partner at Chesapeake Financial Planners.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 8, 2026

The state was unmoved, and maintained in legal filings that Anderson was domiciled in Connecticut.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

Black people who were enslaved were undoubtedly domiciled here, but the same is not true of temporary visitors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

The protection for unprinted works covers playright and the right to translate, and protects any author domiciled within Holland or the Dutch Indies.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Richard Rogers Bowker

The benefits of domiciling in the U.S. rarely outweighed the risks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

Many asset managers enjoy lower tax rates by domiciling funds in countries such as Ireland and Luxembourg.

From Reuters ● Jun. 2, 2021

That would be like domiciling at an EconoLodge.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2013

But his surveys of Manhattan subways, sewage, traffic and domiciling reveal conditions so overwhelmingly horrible that even Dreamer Strauss loses heart.

From Time Magazine Archive

We have mentioned the domiciling in Chester Square, which took place in February 1858, perhaps on the strength of the additional income from Oxford.

From Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury


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