estate
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The development, Forest City, is a symbol of China’s real estate bust, defined by overborrowing and overbuilding at home and abroad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
She has — from what you say — left her estate to you.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Craig grew up on a council estate in Belfast, but moved to Manchester in 2003 at the age of 18 to study politics and modern history at the University of Manchester.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
The family kept the Fair Oaks home and purchased another $9.1-million estate in Marin County in 2024, where they primarily live and their four children attend school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
That well-tended estate was the very opposite of ramshackle, with no failing crops to be found, only daffodils in bright yellow bloom and the swelling green buds of tulips, full of promise.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Natasha Kerrigan, the chief estates and infrastructure officer for the MSENFT, said it was the first increase in three years and some visitors would not have to pay for parking.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
For some families with complex estates, consolidating accounts and assets under one trustee can help everything run more smoothly.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
While one of the estates has now changed hands, Combs still owns the second of his two Star Island homes.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
A year later, Blair referred to some estates as "sinking ships".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
After Madoc stole us from the human world, he brought us to his estates on Insmire, the Isle of Might, where the High King of Elfhame keeps his stronghold.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
In connection with each of these settlements Pynar uses the phrase, 'I find planted and estated.'
From The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times by Godkin, James
You ain't above taking all our money and seeing us starve; and that when you have got everything round you here like an estated gentleman, as you are?'
From John Caldigate by Trollope, Anthony
There were deeds, and bonds, and leases, rent-rolls, and valuations, and powers of attorney, and all the other imposing accessories of estated property.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
At the institution many of the chief estated gentlemen of the kingdom were selected for the dignity.
From Collections and Recollections by Russell, George William Erskine
When Councillor Holmes comes down at the assizes, I'll lay a case before him, and I'll wager a trifle, Peter, you will turn out to be an estated gentleman.'
From Lord Kilgobbin by Lever, Charles James
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