inheritance
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If your daughter is married or marries sometime in the future, she can decide how much of her inheritance will be commingled with her spouse’s finances.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
Some civic and cultural inheritance worth passing on.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
Across the dataset, researchers identified 522 cases, representing about 7% of the epigenetic inheritance patterns examined on non-sex chromosomes, that did not follow Mendelian expectations.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026
Speaking in generalities about institutions, the rule of law, and the inheritance of American democracy, he named no president and aired no specific grievance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
Today his wife and Jimmy Hoo agreed to eat with their only customer on the promise that he would help them with their clues and not take a share of the inheritance if they won.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
Vocabulary lists containing inheritance
"The Hill We Climb," by Amanda Gorman
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Genetics - Inheritance and Variation of Traits
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