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Recent Examples of country house
The host’s father decided to look for a replacement in a cupboard at their English country house.
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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
Indeed, his one-room retreat feels a bit like a miniaturized version of a British country house inhabited by a magpie chatelain, albeit one with an inspiring ability to make magic out of the mundane.
—Mitchell Owens, Architectural Digest, 11 Oct. 2024
The play, about a fanciful tour guide of a dull and stately English country house who runs into conflict with a factually fastidious official at the historic property, was almost immaterial.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
The leaders of the European Union’s 27 member states, as well as 20 other heads of state from across the region, arrived Thursday to attend the one-day EPC summit at the historic English country house.
—Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 18 July 2024
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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
Indeed, his one-room retreat feels a bit like a miniaturized version of a British country house inhabited by a magpie chatelain, albeit one with an inspiring ability to make magic out of the mundane.
—Mitchell Owens, Architectural Digest, 11 Oct. 2024
The play, about a fanciful tour guide of a dull and stately English country house who runs into conflict with a factually fastidious official at the historic property, was almost immaterial.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
The leaders of the European Union’s 27 member states, as well as 20 other heads of state from across the region, arrived Thursday to attend the one-day EPC summit at the historic English country house.
—Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 18 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for country house
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There’s a certain political commentary here, too, about who’s allowed to rule the great houses of Dune, what roles women are confined to, and how the Bene Gesserit turn women’s social limitations and underestimations to their advantage.Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 Nov. 2024
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The Bene Gesserit are, uh, geneticists These space witches are running a gigantic, generations-long breeding program to guide all the great houses and eventually put the perfect person, or Kwisatz Haderach, on the Imperium throne and under their control.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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In an elegant town house on the street, Bashar al-Assad’s father-in-law, Fawaz Akhras, has a cardiology practice.Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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The historic four-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom town house still stands today and was recently listed for $1.8 million.Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 28 Oct. 2024
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Due to the high costs of dorms and increasing costs of campus parking passes, many UH students find off-campus housing more cost-effective.Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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Kay Wiles, director of HealthNet's Homeless Initiative Program, told IndyStar Wednesday that the goal is to give families one place to call at HealthNet to be connected with housing resources.Jordan Smith, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Country house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/country%20house. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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