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[in-her-it] / ɪnˈhɛr ɪt /


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His coronation follows the death of King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV and comes amid a disputed succession, with questions raised over who should inherit the throne.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

I don’t want to know what I’ll inherit.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Knowing the gene behind AnWj gives blood specialists something they did not previously have: a direct genetic way to search for people who inherit AnWj-negative blood.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

The liberal arts introduce students to the best that has been thought and said, teaching them to listen before they speak and inherit before they innovate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

I did inherit Daddy’s eyelashes—and I’m cursed with his eyebrows too.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas

The Angel Stadium lease that Kroenke inherits requires the team name to “include the name Anaheim therein.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

The lateral septum inherits much of its primary input from a brain region called the hippocampus.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

"It inherits the credibility of the map it was born on."

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

He inherits a race transformed by Graham Platner’s abrupt exit—and must convince voters he can harness the oysterman’s populist appeal without carrying his baggage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

The next part of the will would read: "Whichsoever pair made the most money with the ten thousand dollars inherits the whole estate."

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

Others are putting their money on Antiguan-American author Jamaica Kincaid, whose work deals with exile, identity and the traumas inherited from colonialism, or on Chinese writer Can Xue.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

That is a far more demanding mission than the one universities inherited from the 20th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

This approach works partly because it is familiar to the squad Enzo Maresca inherited from Guardiola in the summer.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

The trial involved patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, the most common inherited neuromuscular disorder.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Let us return to linkage: Morgan’s experiments had established that genes that were physically linked to each other on the same chromosome were inherited together.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Burnham took office in July, inheriting a sluggish economy and government debts that are close to 94% of annual economic output.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

John Ternus took over as Apple's chief executive on Tuesday, inheriting a company that towers over the smartphone market but trails its rivals in artificial intelligence.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Right-handed reliever Edgardo Henriquez replaced Sasaki, inheriting two baserunners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Choose the one who gives you the most time and who you know will benefit the most from inheriting your home.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

But I would argue that there is a difference between inheriting a cultural tradition, as the Norte Chico culture’s successors apparently did, and copying one, as the Olmec’s proponents argue.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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