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
And yet you can’t bequeath to your children a crust of bread.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 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
The director of “The Fly” and “Videodrome” isn’t in the film long, but he bequeaths prestige upon these splat-hijinks that they don’t quite deserve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
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
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
She bequeaths her stuffed toys to Gloria’s fourteen-year- old daughter.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
And since houses can be bequeathed tax-free, having a valuable property can help homeowners who want to leave something to the next generation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Yet feats of demography are only part of what “Revolver” bequeathed.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
The enduring love for these Broadway shows isn’t just about the standards they have bequeathed to the American songbook.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Monkhouse bequeathed his joke book collection to his writing partner in his will.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
The uncle was blood proud and had bequeathed Holmes his estate on condition he first adopt the uncle’s name in full.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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
“That ice sheets collapsing is kind of that thousand-year timescale, but it’s still bequeathing an entirely different planet to our descendants.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
They reach out to people, hosting dinner parties, bequeathing little bits of themselves to their friends.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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