birthright

While that dry spell will draw empty stares from fans in Seattle, Pittsburgh or San Diego, it’s a fiasco for a franchise that’s won 27 of them and regards October silverware as its birthright.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

For many Brits, seeing it is akin to a birthright.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

It passed civil rights acts that guaranteed birthright citizenship and enacted Reconstruction Acts that secured black suffrage in the South.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

The US and Canada are the only two countries considered "developed" nations by the International Monetary Fund that grant mostly unrestricted birthright citizenship.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

But the unconscious mastery of language that is our birthright as humans is not enough to allow us to write good sentences.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

"We were all aware that we weren't being knighted or accepting a peerage. We all knew that the right we stood to gain was fairly inconsequential as inherited birthrights go."

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

If birthrights actually existed, women might well feel that a lot of power is due to them.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024

Johnson and Clinton had no political birthrights but set out from young ages to reach the nation’s highest office.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

The dividing line traced by roadblocks also is tugging on sensitivities about birthrights and inequities, as Native American visitors worry about the social stigma of being locked out because of the contagion.

From Washington Times ● May 8, 2020

They came muttering some wild jargon about "bulwarks," "bulkheads," "cofferdams," "safeguards," "noble charters," "shields," and "paladiums," "great and glorious birthrights," and other unintelligible gibberish.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville