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country house

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as in great house

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Recent Examples of country house Hulu Tobe Hooper’s masterwork follows a group of extremely unlucky teens who pick up an unhinged hitchhiker (Edwin Neal) and wind up at a rundown country house. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 9 June 2026 Removed from an Oxfordshire country house in 1931 and shipped across the Atlantic piece by piece, the lavish Rococo dining room remains on display today as one of the museum’s standout period rooms. — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 June 2026 Those in the Garden Wing are spacious and pale-pastel-pretty, with the air of a French country house, while those in the original building range from cosy under the eaves to lofty ceilinged with four-posters. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026 Turner first discovered Cooper’s novels many years ago in an old girlfriend’s country house. — Anna Russell, New Yorker, 1 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for country house

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The property is one of the Caribbean's few remaining plantation great houses and one of the only Barbadian producers still bottling its own single casks—visitors can even ride a heritage railway through the grounds.

— Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
There's great house drama (including a full house screaming match after Jessie's eviction and Jerry dubbing Dan as Judas).

— Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026

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After her father died during a stint of temporary housing in Trieste, Italy’s new bordertown, Marisa was sent to live in an orphanage as her mother worked.

— Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
But the law in question, from 1971, had been designed to encourage developers to build low- and middle-income housing.

— Kai Bird, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026