inheriting

Example Sentences

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It leaves Alonso inheriting a team low on confidence, operating under financial constraints and facing wider personnel challenges.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

Warsh’s first rate-setting meeting as chair likely won’t be until late June, and the committee he is inheriting is already moving against him.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

Inheriting them meant inheriting “a responsibility to them and to the people who have owned them.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

“It’s kind of inheriting that briny character, like a martini of the sea.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

Einsteinian physics can thus be regarded as inheriting the results of Newtonian physics while going far beyond them.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton