legatee

Example Sentences

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She wore white, the color of the suffragette movement, of which Pelosi was a legatee and enormous champion.

From Los Angeles Times

Republicans, after George W. Bush’s presidency, did not flock to him for advice or run as his legatee.

From Los Angeles Times

Despite some obvious gains, we are still pecking away at systemic issues and deep-seated beliefs that have been bequeathed to present-day legatees.

From Seattle Times

Douglass, says Sandefur, was not a conservative but a legatee of “the classical liberalism of the American founding.”

From Washington Post

Sheriff Frank Crowe told him: "Your actions caused much grief, inconvenience and disappointment to the other legatees and your friends and uncertainty to the tenants of properties which were rented from the deceased."

From BBC