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inheritance

[in-her-i-tuhns] / ɪnˈhɛr ɪ təns /
NOUN
possession gained through someone's death
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Even Taylor Greene is worth about $25 million, mostly from inheritance.

From MarketWatch

Your diagnosis is a call to action — and your inheritance will help with your planning.

From MarketWatch

To equalize your grandchildren’s inheritance later, you can adjust the distribution in your will or trust, reducing their shares by the amount you have already given each of them.

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Is there any way to protect our inheritance?

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I wondered if she makes a conscious effort to protect her children from the traumatic inheritance of genocide.

From BBC