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inheritance

[in-her-i-tuhns] / ɪnˈhɛr ɪ təns /
NOUN
possession gained through someone's death
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In such a city, identity was less an inheritance than a layering.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 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

Karl Lagerfeld’s cat waiting six years for her inheritance.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

Across the dataset, researchers identified 522 cases, representing about 7% of the epigenetic inheritance patterns examined on non-sex chromosomes, that did not follow Mendelian expectations.

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026

The disjunction between the prince’s all-too-human genetic inheritance and his all-too-exalted political inheritance must have seemed particularly evident to the critics of the monarchy.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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