pass on
Example Sentences
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Manufacturers often choose to swallow small cost increases, but big ones tend to get passed on to consumers.
From BBC
Someone gave her a plate with purple flowers on it, but the Elmer one was her old familiar until it got passed on to her younger brother.
“A deeper part of this is creating healthy lifestyle habits and passing on that manual of how to treat your body to the next generation,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times
Church, the Harvard-Westlake dean, said the school passed on Yondr pouches after learning teens could buy tools to bypass the locks.
From Los Angeles Times
"The country mourns the loss of a guiding presence that shaped its democratic aspirations," Rahman said following his mother's passing on Tuesday.
From BBC
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