inheritance
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His own will calls for 90% of his wife’s inheritance to go into a low-cost S&P 500 index fund and 10% into short-term government bonds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
In such a city, identity was less an inheritance than a layering.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Karl Lagerfeld’s cat waiting six years for her inheritance.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
If your daughter is married or marries sometime in the future, she can decide how much of her inheritance will be commingled with her spouse’s finances.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
It had obvious defects: it could not, for example, explain the inheritance of characteristics from the father; in 1752 Maupertuis showed that polydactylism could be inherited in the male as well as the female line.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing inheritance
"The Hill We Climb," by Amanda Gorman
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"The Origin of Species by Natural Selection" by Charles Darwin: Essential Words
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Genetics - Inheritance and Variation of Traits
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