inheritance
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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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