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Recent Examples of chattel The game is the system that keeps one as chattel for the other. Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024 Bottles are taxed under the more generous capital gains tax regime for chattels, while casks are widely considered a wasting asset and are currently entirely free from capital gains tax. Mark Littler, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024 The game is the system that keeps one as chattel for the other. Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024 This led to the development of a particular type of housing structure known as chattel houses in countries such as Barbados. Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for chattel
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Noun
  • The practice goes back to soon after the Civil War, when Congress ratified the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, in part to ensure that Black people, including former slaves, had citizenship.
    Tim Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2025
  • The other was used by people descended from slaves brought from Southeast Asia to work for the Afrikaner farmers.
    Carey Baraka, The Dial, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Danilo Amilcar-Escobar, who was deported three times since April 2024, had pending charges for strangulation, domestic battery and cocaine possession, according to ICE.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 8 July 2025
  • Police are trying to find the owner of the minibike and learn how the 10-year-old gained possession of it.
    Craig Shoup, The Tennessean, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • The challenge has always been to figure out how to personalize things without spending inordinate amounts of time and money mapping out every possible path a student might take.
    Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
  • As a business owner, higher profit margins, all other things being equal, are more valuable.
    Bill Stone, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Moving is consistently considered one of the most stressful life events, and a lot of this has to do with the sheer amount of stuff involved.
    Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 28 June 2025
  • There would be nightclub stuff happening in the evenings.
    Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025

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“Chattel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chattel. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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