inheritance
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Shortly afterwards, one of his sons and Marie-Thérèse reportedly entered a dispute over his inheritance.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
Josh spent Lindsay’s inheritance on taking care of his mother.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
The actor stars in Steven Soderbergh’s clever drama as an artist whose children arrange the forgery of his unfinished works to ensure themselves an inheritance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Given what you say in your letter, it does not seem like he needs an inheritance from you, so why would he insist upon it?
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 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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