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 • Nov. 17, 2022
Why should Phillips nod to a film of 1936, if not to stake his claim as a legatee?
From The New Yorker • Sep. 27, 2019
Douglass, says Sandefur, was not a conservative but a legatee of “the classical liberalism of the American founding.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2018
Its most famous legatee is Christopher Nolan, creator of Inception, and maybe that's the movie that original Tron fans would still prefer to watch.
From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2010
Should I transgress the injunctions laid upon me by his will, Clara becomes his residuary legatee.
From Quicksands by Streckfuss, Adolph
