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bequeath

[bih-kweeth, -kweeth] / bɪˈkwiθ, -ˈkwið /


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“People who are 60 can live to 85. People are highly likely to want to bequeath their portfolio to children — and those heirs might have 30 to 40 years until retirement.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 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

Brandi Schmitt is director of the anatomical donation programme at the University of California, a popular destination for people wishing to bequeath their bodies.

From BBC Aug. 30, 2025

He went on to bequeath little bits of money and jewelry to each of them, never clarifying which one he considered his Koh-i-noor.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

“Her voice was as sweet as her engagements were fiery. She bequeaths us tunes and images that will never leave us.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 16, 2023

Liz Truss bequeaths her successor a party in chaos, spiralling prices, rising interest rates and squeezed government budgets.

From BBC Oct. 20, 2022

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

Gov’t Mule bequeaths the songs and dreams of Haynes to a rabid audience of highly devoted followers almost without rest.

From Salon Jun. 1, 2017

And what love bequeaths to us before we’re born.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Yet feats of demography are only part of what “Revolver” bequeathed.

From Salon Aug. 5, 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

Monkhouse bequeathed his joke book collection to his writing partner in his will.

From BBC Mar. 24, 2026

Gehry bequeathed blueprints and models, sketches and concepts, for his large and devoted team of younger architects and next-generation visionaries equipped to fabricate our way out of angst.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2026

From the very beginning, the two men wrote in 2004, the city was partly in ruins—intentionally so, because the fallen walls bequeathed on Tiwanaku the authority of the past.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

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

He stepped down in 2017, bequeathing power to Mr Lourenço who was then defence minister.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2022

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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