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Recent Examples of great house
Salesforce is still a great house, but the neighborhood is deteriorating.
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Zev Fima, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2025
That was followed the next year by Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, the story of a working-class imposter who manipulates and murders his way to ownership of a great house.
—Literary Hub, 4 Aug. 2025
Side two of the finished LP, in particular, was one of the great house party soundtracks of the era.
—Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2025
The space-witch order ostensibly provides trusted advisers to the ruling Emperor of the Corrino Empire and his Imperium’s aristocratic great houses, like House Atreides and House Harkonnen, but has secretly harbored long-gestating plans about who can and should rule.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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Zev Fima, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2025
That was followed the next year by Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, the story of a working-class imposter who manipulates and murders his way to ownership of a great house.
—Literary Hub, 4 Aug. 2025
Side two of the finished LP, in particular, was one of the great house party soundtracks of the era.
—Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2025
The space-witch order ostensibly provides trusted advisers to the ruling Emperor of the Corrino Empire and his Imperium’s aristocratic great houses, like House Atreides and House Harkonnen, but has secretly harbored long-gestating plans about who can and should rule.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for great house
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The Dining Room, set in the manor house at Quinta da Casa Branca, serves refined à la carte dishes and a tasting menu in a classic room with a terrace facing the gardens.—
Lauren Mowery,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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This small exquisite property provides unique rooms in its two manor houses and beautiful cantilevered landscaping.—
Jessica Chapel,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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The main house is a traditional Italian country villa spanning more than 20,000 square feet.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
30 Jan. 2026
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Kenton Jones is the managing director at The Tryall Club, a luxury villa resort in Montego Bay.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Jan. 2026
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Outside of showing us the Secret Traitor’s handwriting on their shortlists, there were no tells from the production team about who this person could be, just shadowy footage of some hooded player wandering the castle with a lantern.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
10 Jan. 2026
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After the cast gathered outside the castle, host Alan Cumming selected one player in plain sight to take on the role.—
Jordana Comiter,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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Conceived as a modern tropical mansion visible to drivers crossing the causeway that connects Miami Beach to Miami, the house stood out for its tall columns flanked by nearly transparent white curtains from ceiling to floor, opening panoramically to the pool and Biscayne Bay.—
Sarah Moreno,
Miami Herald,
7 Jan. 2026
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The architect was Nathaniel Goodfall, who was also the architect of the governor’s mansion.—
Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
7 Jan. 2026
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The 240-seat hacienda-style restaurant’s menu draws on Carballo’s nomadic culinary travels in his native Mexico.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Jan. 2026
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The gringos are coming, and Latour must shore up the diocese, trekking between isolated haciendas and pueblos with his quasi-spousal companion Father Vaillant.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
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When the gross lord of the manor tries to assault one of Sophie's fellow maids, Sophie stands up to him, but then the violent creep is about to harm Sophie.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
29 Jan. 2026
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And who doesn’t relish the gothic details of an ancient manor and grumpy yet uniquely attractive duke that owns it?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
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The Prince and Princess of Wales still use KP as their London home, and on two separate instances over the holidays, a man broke onto the grounds of the palace carrying a heavy rucksack.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
6 Jan. 2026
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Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were grabbed from their presidential palace in Caracas, the South American country’s capital, during a precision military operation.—
New York Daily News,
New York Daily News,
5 Jan. 2026
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Any project involving multiple designers requires plenty of open conversation and some healthy design diplomacy, but all the more so in the case of a recent renovation to an Upper West Side town house.—
David Foxley,
Architectural Digest,
7 Jan. 2026
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His Manhattan town house on East 71st Street, which sold for $51 million in March 2021.—
Elise Taylor,
Vanity Fair,
23 Dec. 2025
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“Great house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/great%20house. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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