inheritance
Example Sentences
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The Declaration’s assertion of equality proved not a static inheritance but a generative one, repeatedly redeployed in causes the Founders themselves could scarcely have imagined.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
“Omakase” is in conversation with that same roots-first impulse, but Díaz’s inheritance is messier and more personal.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
His language implicitly reaffirmed a vision of citizenship based on civic membership rather than ethnic inheritance.
From Salon • May 11, 2026
My wife and I are planning to start sending money to her two children under my “get your inheritance now” plan, when they can really use it.
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
It had obvious defects: it could not, for example, explain the inheritance of characteristics from the father; in 1752 Maupertuis showed that polydactylism could be inherited in the male as well as the female line.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing inheritance
"The Hill We Climb," by Amanda Gorman
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"The Origin of Species by Natural Selection" by Charles Darwin: Essential Words
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Genetics - Inheritance and Variation of Traits
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