heritage
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“We asked her to publicly acknowledge that she is a white woman of Jewish heritage and an Israeli settler family.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
"Next year it'll be banning something else relatively small...until we're all just eating, you know, chicken nuggets, and we'll have no culinary heritage whatsoever."
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
"The Torcal is a Bentley first and foremost, created by hand by people who care, using the best available materials and technology to blend heritage with cutting-edge innovation," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Consider the most famous Irish person of Jewish heritage, who despite being fictional can be said to have changed the world.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Nicasia gloats through the lesson, proud of her heritage.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
The stockpile, which has since risen in value, adds Wyoming to a growing cohort of states, including some with mining heritages, looking to add precious metal to their investment portfolios.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
Two MPs have announced their marriage with a wedding that they said celebrated their "two different heritages".
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025
“Only in America,” Harris said, was it possible for two people of such different backgrounds and heritages to join together to make it “all the way” to the White House.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2024
Even the Moscow Art Theatre, from which Chekhov’s plays emerged, has recognized that heritages need to be reinvented.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
But the tradition of daily prayer is only one of the two great devotional heritages of the Church.
From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by William Reed Huntington
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It's All in the Family
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"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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