hereditary
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Set in the early 1960s, Angh follows Anghba, the ageing hereditary chief of a Konyak village, and his young son, as the world around them changes.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The Tooro Kingdom follows a hereditary system in selecting its monarch.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Today, almost every country that isn’t a hereditary monarchy is declining to issue currency that features its sitting head of state.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
When I was dating my wife, Lilach, I told her that stuttering is hereditary and that she might have children who stutter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Darwin imagined that the cells of all organisms produce minute particles containing hereditary information—gemmules, he called them.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing hereditary
100 SAT Words Beginning with "H"
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Democracy in America, Vol. 1" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Introduction–Chapter 5
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