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heritage

[her-i-tij] / ˈhɛr ɪ tɪdʒ /


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Elephants are protected by law, are named as India's "national heritage animal", and many followers of the elephant-headed Hindu deity Ganesh see the animals as sacred.

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

The Gardens Trust, a parks and gardens heritage and conversion charity, called the decision to remove its role as a statutory consultee "devastating".

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

In 2007, Niman and Hahn Niman started BN Ranch, specializing in organic, grass-fed beef and heritage turkeys.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

The result has been a three-week trip catching up with family and traveling around the country to hike, swim, shop and visit heritage sites.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

He wanted them to have pride in their own heritage, not to see it as a second-rate imitation of European culture.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The stockpile, which has since risen in value, adds Wyoming to a growing cohort of states, including some with mining heritages, looking to add precious metal to their investment portfolios.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 17, 2026

"It's not just Muslims - there are going to be kids of other heritages who are inspired by Djed."

From BBC Sep. 9, 2025

“Only in America,” Harris said, was it possible for two people of such different backgrounds and heritages to join together to make it “all the way” to the White House.

From Slate Aug. 7, 2024

And yet Native music, kaleidoscopically varied across the country and its many tribes and heritages, remains only rarely heard, and so only vaguely understood and appreciated, by non-Natives.

From New York Times May 29, 2024

Lady Adela had never until now appeared an interesting figure to Lizzie, but now forth, from the dry sterile husk of her, a life, pathetic, struggling against heritages of dumb years, tried to come.

From The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Sir Hugh Walpole




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