hereditary

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Like many chronic afflictions, Mets fandom can be hereditary or acquired.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Lord Carrington became a hereditary member of the Lords in 2018, after winning a by-election to replace a retired peer.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Some cross-bench hereditary peers - who are not affiliated with political parties - are expected to be saved too.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

Though he had - as he put it - "defended the indefensible" by arguing against the removal of hereditary peers, the earl has accepted his fate and was not "unduly distressed by it".

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

Lords produced lords—not because peerage was hereditary, but because intelligence was.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee