as in haciendas
a large impressive residence
if I ever win the lottery, I'm going to buy a mansion in the hills
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Recent Examples of mansions
Enter the brothers Moon, a troubled pair of Korean immigrant boxers who’ve carved out a life for themselves in the City of Angels, far away from the Beverly Hills mansions and Hollywood royalty of last season.
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Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
19 June 2026
The outdoor screenings take place across Aquidneck Island and are held on the lawns of historic mansions and in public parks.
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Brent Lang,
Variety,
17 June 2026
While the Hamptons enjoy a swelling population of seasonal residents, many of whom live in palatial mansions, the Container Studio was built for an artist looking for a compact creative space close to her Hamptons home.
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Caitlin Gunther,
Architectural Digest,
17 June 2026
That’s when people began hiring full-time live-in dog nannies, paying as much as $55 an hour on top of room and board in the mega-mansions in the dunes.
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Benjamin Svetkey,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2026
Strung along a narrow barrier island on the Gulf of Mexico, Galveston is a beautiful blend of graceful Victorian and early 20th-century mansions, bungalows, cottages, and a stunning historic downtown lined with tall palm trees and live oaks.
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Valerie Fraser Luesse,
Southern Living,
16 June 2026
Since acquiring the land in 2023, French luxury development firm Madar Group USA has planned a dozen mansions.
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Alexandra Phelps
updated June 16,
Miami Herald,
16 June 2026
Starting more than a decade ago, Griffin has spent four hundred and fifty million dollars to buy the land and level a few incumbent mansions, one of which was eighteen thousand square feet.
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Gary Sernovitz,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
Lake Norman communities are weighing a wave of development proposals, from mansions and townhomes to a car country club and a $200 million mixed-use project.
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Ai Based,
Charlotte Observer,
13 June 2026
Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
19 June 2026
The outdoor screenings take place across Aquidneck Island and are held on the lawns of historic mansions and in public parks.
—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
17 June 2026
While the Hamptons enjoy a swelling population of seasonal residents, many of whom live in palatial mansions, the Container Studio was built for an artist looking for a compact creative space close to her Hamptons home.
—
Caitlin Gunther,
Architectural Digest,
17 June 2026
That’s when people began hiring full-time live-in dog nannies, paying as much as $55 an hour on top of room and board in the mega-mansions in the dunes.
—
Benjamin Svetkey,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2026
Strung along a narrow barrier island on the Gulf of Mexico, Galveston is a beautiful blend of graceful Victorian and early 20th-century mansions, bungalows, cottages, and a stunning historic downtown lined with tall palm trees and live oaks.
—
Valerie Fraser Luesse,
Southern Living,
16 June 2026
Since acquiring the land in 2023, French luxury development firm Madar Group USA has planned a dozen mansions.
—
Alexandra Phelps
updated June 16,
Miami Herald,
16 June 2026
Starting more than a decade ago, Griffin has spent four hundred and fifty million dollars to buy the land and level a few incumbent mansions, one of which was eighteen thousand square feet.
—
Gary Sernovitz,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
Lake Norman communities are weighing a wave of development proposals, from mansions and townhomes to a car country club and a $200 million mixed-use project.
—
Ai Based,
Charlotte Observer,
13 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mansions
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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.
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While arched passageways reference those found in classic haciendas, the walls are hand-finished in quintessentially Mexican chukum plaster.
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Importantly, there is little evidence today that organizations can simply add AI to existing technology estates and naturally evolve into these agentic environments.
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And former Droll/Kolbert Gallery director Barry Rosen has spent decades as an adviser to the estates of several Hauser & Wirth artists, including Eva Hesse and Lee Lozano, and separately to the glass artist Dale Chihuly.
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And, of course, there are plenty of castles, estates, and old manors to get your history fix.
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Blackwood, with her firsthand knowledge of drafty manors and unhinged families, explains with remorseless precision what lies behind the fantasy—what happens when the houses, and the people in them, are neither charismatic nor lovable.
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The plan also urges African countries to preserve former slave forts and castles as memorial sites.
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Nolan and the cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, wielding heavy IMAX cameras, shot their picture across the Mediterranean and beyond, in caves, castles, beaches, black-sand wastes, and open water.
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Families can choose suites accommodating up to five people (some with swim-up access) or two-bedroom villas with private pools and butler service for up to six.
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There are vertiginous views in Dubai and calm desert minimalism in Utah, where villas are sculpted into otherworldly canyons.
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More like a small city, larger than Pompeii, Hadrian’s Palace boasted a sprawling display of 30 monumental buildings, including palaces, libraries, baths, and theaters.
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King Kalakaua is said to have been inspired by the grand palaces of Europe when designing his own in the islands.
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The country is a top cultivator and exporter of greenhouse tomatoes (Mexico, China, Canada, the United States and Spain are the other power-green houses in this space, with an annual market of ~$10B growing to ~$16B by 2030).
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Beach houses are the way to stay in Edisto; book one big enough to sleep the entire family and make memories to last a lifetime.
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“Mansions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mansions. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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