bequeath

“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

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

If you bequeath a Roth, heirs’ withdrawals are tax-free.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

“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

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

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

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2022

The loss of Jonathan Demme is a sad surprise, for the films that he bequeaths to us remain, to an uncommon degree, the work of a good man.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2017

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

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

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

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

Frieda bequeathed it to the University of New Mexico, and the D.H.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

Mom says, “I quote, ‘This good book is bequeathed to my granddaughter, Jude Sweetwine, the last remaining bearer of The Sweetwine Gift.’”

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

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

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