inherit

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In mammals, offspring inherit one allele from each parent.

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026

Mach will inherit Exquadrum’s work on Golden Dome, an effort to build a missile-defense shield that has become a signature defense priority for the administration, and which has been estimated to cost $1.2 trillion.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

When heirs inherit assets in an irrevocable trust, they don’t get the benefit of a step-up in cost basis that they get on assets inherited outside the trust.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

“Flowers For Men” is an effects-shredded, future-primitive record, written after the birth of her son upended her obligations — and expectations — toward the men in her life and the world they’ll inherit.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

His grandchildren would inherit a quarter; his great-grandchildren, an eighth; his great-great-grandchildren, one-sixteenth, and so forth—until his genetic essence had been diluted, in just a few generations, into complete oblivion.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee