bequeath
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But rising life expectancy expands their time horizon, and many households with $1 million or more in investable assets intend to bequeath a substantial portion of their assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
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
“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.”
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
“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
To moviegoers, the legacy that he bequeaths is a mixed one.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018
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
Each box owner has about 10 seats that can be transferred, rented out or bequeathed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
Monkhouse bequeathed his joke book collection to his writing partner in his will.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
Before he died he handed over his pocket-book to me, and bequeathed me his boots—the same that he once inherited from Kemmerich.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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
Rewrite my will with a clause about my bequeathing the drawing to them.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
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