birthright
noun
birth·right
ˈbərth-ˌrīt 
: a right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth
Examples of birthright in a Sentence
the freedom that is our birthright
believed that the house was her birthright
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After Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett announced from the court’s mahogany bench last month that lower court judges had gone too far in pausing President Donald Trump’s changes to birthright citizenship, the court’s liberals got their turn.
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Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 6 July 2025
The court’s ruling in Trump v. CASA in late June ostensibly was not about the long-standing practice of birthright citizenship itself.
—Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2025
The ruling, in a case which originated out of a trio of universal injunctions against Trump’s birthright citizenship order, has taken a key power out of district courts’ hands.
—Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 6 July 2025
The case in question involved Trump’s order on birthright citizenship.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 4 July 2025
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Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 6 July 2025
The court’s ruling in Trump v. CASA in late June ostensibly was not about the long-standing practice of birthright citizenship itself.
—Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2025
The ruling, in a case which originated out of a trio of universal injunctions against Trump’s birthright citizenship order, has taken a key power out of district courts’ hands.
—Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 6 July 2025
The case in question involved Trump’s order on birthright citizenship.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 4 July 2025
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“Birthright.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/birthright. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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birthright
noun
birth·right
-ˌrīt
: a right or possession that a person is entitled to by birth
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