inheritance
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He shows her ideas taking shape at desks where classifications opened or foreclosed futures, within organizations charged with apportioning the remnants of an inheritance among the living.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
I have spent ten years loving Lesbos as an inheritance, a thing I own from a distance, and the smoke on my screen has shamed that love into something more useful.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Scientists uncovered that inheritance by extracting and sequencing DNA preserved in Neanderthal and Denisovan fossils.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Since I live in Pennsylvania, I understand that I will owe a 15% inheritance tax, leaving me with approximately $17,000 to invest or save.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
The disjunction between the prince’s all-too-human genetic inheritance and his all-too-exalted political inheritance must have seemed particularly evident to the critics of the monarchy.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
In her view, farmers who don’t want a data center might not appreciate that family farms become family inheritances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Throughout their 20s, both men lived off allowances and inheritances from their families.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
I am loath to disclaim the power that comes with symbols such as the flag, words such as freedom, and the attachments that adhere to foundational inheritances such as, yes, the Constitution.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
It is often their parents who are the driving force behind ring-fencing those inheritances.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
The Randall sons managed their inheritances according to their temperaments.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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Genetics - Inheritance and Variation of Traits
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