inheritance
Example Sentences
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She would then ask them to help her with outstanding payments and vouched to reimburse them through her inheritance, which she never did.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
This was another Stephen inheritance; one of the quiet joys of combining kitchens with someone who loves food as much as you do.
From Salon • Apr. 21, 2026
Not only does Florida not have a state income tax, it doesn’t have an estate tax or an inheritance tax.
From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026
Sometimes, the former can change significantly overnight with no input from us whatsoever, for example via an inheritance that leaves us with questions about investments, lifestyle, taxes and retirement.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
He proposed that every feature in a human—height, weight, intelligence, beauty—was a composite function generated by a conserved pattern of ancestral inheritance.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Genetics - Inheritance and Variation of Traits
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