inheritance
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Given that the driving motivation of all things Austen is marriage, often to prevent inheritance laws from leaving women out in the literal cold, Mrs. Bennet is particularly harsh toward Mary.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
Samsung confirmed on Sunday that the final payment had been made, noting that the sum is equivalent to roughly one and a half times the country's total inheritance tax revenue for 2024.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
“I do not have any inheritance from anyone coming my way as I lost most of my immediate family when young.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
"The American patriots who pledged their lives to independence in 1776, were the heirs to this majestic inheritance," Trump said.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
By studying the mathematical relationships—the ratios—between the various kinds of progeny produced by each cross, Mendel could begin to construct a model to explain the inheritance of traits.*
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing inheritance
"The Hill We Climb," by Amanda Gorman
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"The Origin of Species by Natural Selection" by Charles Darwin: Essential Words
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Genetics - Inheritance and Variation of Traits
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