bequeath
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Why do voters and MPs bequeath and remove their support with seemingly such casual ease?
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
Related: My second husband will leave me $540,000 if I bequeath him my $130,000 net worth.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026
If you bequeath a Roth, heirs’ withdrawals are tax-free.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
But a time-tested made-in-Italy pedigree and solid-metal build make the Marcato the sort of tool you bequeath to your grandkids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
“We bequeath it to you. We don’t really need it anymore.”
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
The passage of great TV characters bequeaths to their survivors, including the audience, a rummage of questions that end up shaping their journey.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2025
He appointed more than 140 cardinals from non-European countries and bequeaths his successor a Church that is far more global in outlook than the one he inherited.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2025
Because Bill saw a kindred spirit in Joel as someone who protects those they love, he bequeaths everything he owns to Joel so he can keep Tess safe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2023
He admits that “my wish to learn Sanskrit was an attempt to deal intellectually with a country whose reality perturbed me,” but the language bequeaths him a vast literary inheritance.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2019
And what love bequeaths to us before we’re born.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Decades of American colonial rule bequeathed the nation with a passion for basketball.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
The planet’s brashest sport had arrived at what is putatively “The People’s House” to deliver a night of branded mayhem to the head of state, like gladiators bequeathed to an emperor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Slot was bequeathed quality, but he put his own stamp on it to make Liverpool title winners.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
Frieda bequeathed it to the University of New Mexico, and the D.H.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Anna Brown, divorced and without children, had bequeathed nearly all her wealth to her mother, Lizzie.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Hassan got further scope to exercise his instincts after Hafez al-Assad died in 2000, bequeathing power to his second son, Bashar, a British-educated eye surgeon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
He played the role of mediator, bequeathing legitimacy to a group which seemingly needed his normalcy.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2024
She suggested having one plan in place for a caretaker if the bonsai owner falls ill and another for bequeathing the tree.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Longtime Dodgers fans will cringe at the bequeathing of so much power to one player, but this is how it works in Tinseltown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
Robbie, my great-aunt, my rigid taskmaster of a piano teacher, passed away in June, bequeathing her house on Euclid to my parents, allowing them to become home owners for the first time.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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