inheritance
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The novelist Christopher Isherwood had a modest inheritance; Gertrude Stein a larger one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Marital trusts are popular for blended families to pass assets to a surviving spouse and protect children’s inheritance.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
Various other changes also come into force at this time of year, including alterations to inheritance tax on farms, tax on dividends, tax relief on venture capital trusts, and homeworking tax relief.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
My sexuality doesn’t obligate me to embrace a particular ideology or to reject the moral inheritance of the society that made my life possible.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Given the inheritance rules for mitochondrial DNA, the conclusion that Indians and Siberians share common ancestry seems, to geneticists, inescapable.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing inheritance
"The Hill We Climb," by Amanda Gorman
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Genetics - Inheritance and Variation of Traits
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