patrimony

Example Sentences

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They will be relentless in protecting their patrimony.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Michael Barry, a leading specialist in miniature art, said that people being deprived of their cultural patrimony was "the height of injustice".

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

And in 2009, the new constitution even recognized “ancestral coca as cultural patrimony, a renewable natural resource of Bolivia’s biodiversity, and as a factor of social cohesion.”

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2025

Officials declined to say how much the initiative cost, but the actual replica was made by the Factum Foundation, a Madrid-based non-profit that creates high-resolution digital replicas of the world’s cultural patrimony.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2024

Their readers’ reward consists of partaking in—and, if they themselves write, helping to preserve—this rich patrimony.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker