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inheritance

[in-her-i-tuhns] / ɪnˈhɛr ɪ təns /
NOUN
possession gained through someone's death
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Associates of the former prime minister said at the time that the items were linked to family inheritance, Agence France-Presse reported.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

FIFA-sanctioned water bottle to avoid expiring in the heat, I’m afraid you won’t have much left of your $5,000 inheritance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

Some civic and cultural inheritance worth passing on.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

If a general rule of inheritance lurked behind the data, it was that human features were distributed in continuous curves, and continuous variations reproduced continuous variations.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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