passed down

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“Time and Water” touches on the epic verse called rimurs, passed down via chanted song by Icelandic women, their descriptive, sorrowful tales like dispatches from previous ages.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

If you dare to ask, sorry, their recipes for pizza dough and tomato sauce are secret, only passed down along the founders’ bloodlines.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

The aim of a scheduled monument is to preserve significant sites in Scotland as much as possible in the form they have been passed down to people today.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Brand surmises that the Dutch collaborator Seyffardt acquired the painting at the 1940 auction and it was then passed down throughout the generations.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

A smoke seemed to rise up and darken the sun’s disc to the hue of blood, as if it had kindled the grass as it passed down under the rim of earth.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien