hereditary
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Tom Nolan praises this “gritty melodrama of familial love and hereditary tragedy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
On the other hand, if a country is not a hereditary monarchy, its sitting head of state is almost certainly not on its circulating coins.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
“There is the theory that hereditary systems are obsolete,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
These were caused by firstly a bed bound state and secondary hereditary spastic paraplegia.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
He had barricaded the most fragile of his convictions—that purely hereditary influences could explain such patterns of accomplishment—from any scientific challenge.
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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