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estate

[ih-stayt] / ɪˈsteɪt /




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In addition to the main house, there is a separate guesthouse and dedicated accommodations for staff, providing plenty of space for visitors and those working on the estate.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

The FTX bankruptcy estate sold its stake in Anthropic for $1.3 billion in 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

TV host Dr. Phil McGraw and his wife, Robin McGraw, are ready to bid farewell to their longtime Beverly Hills, Calif., estate, putting the lavish property on the market for an eye-watering $67.5 million.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Her ex-fiancé feared that the same person would continue to “misappropriate” items belonging to the actor’s estate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Especially when your dad is George Rowley, owner of Chokecherry Real Estate, the largest—and the only—real estate agency in Chokecherry and greater Shadbush County.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

“I have seen plenty of ups and downs in grape and wine supply,” said Juan Munoz-Oca, the estates director for Marchesi Antinori’s U.S. business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

In 2023-24, estates with a valuation of £10m only paid an average effective inheritance tax rate of 18%, according to estimates from HM Revenue and Customs.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

It is drawn from the King's private money, which includes his income from the Duchy of Lancaster, private estates and his own investments and inheritances.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Casa Encantada — a 40,000-square-foot Bel-Air mega-mansion considered one of L.A.’s most iconic estates — has a new owner: Peter Thiel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

“It appears not: I fancy neither she nor her sister have very large fortunes. Old Lord Ingram’s estates were chiefly entailed, and the eldest son came in for everything almost.”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Every class, from the estated proprietor to the humblest peasant, is loud in asserting that the story is an infamous falsehood.

From Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

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 Charles James Lever

They admitted all strangers that were confidingly introduced; for, it was a main end of their institution to make proselytes, especially of the raw estated youths newly come to town.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott

It was all the difference between rank and obscurity—between wealth and want—between the condition of an estated gentleman and the assumption of a mere pretender.

From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever

Darby: You letting on to be an estated magistrate and my own cousin and such a great generation of a man.

From New Irish Comedies by Lady Gregory




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