beneficiaries

plural of beneficiary
as in claimants
someone who inherits something when someone dies He named his only child as the beneficiary on his life insurance policy.

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Recent Examples of beneficiaries Zcash has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of crypto’s broader market rally. — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026 Many beneficiaries have said their problems began after Tricare switched the companies that administer the program in early 2025. — Jason Kane, NBC news, 23 Sep. 2026 Proposition 37 is a taxpayer freebie, a $25-billion bond repaid solely by homebuyer beneficiaries. — Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026 In 2021, the humane society was named as one of nine beneficiaries of a donor’s IRA, which Sadek said the nonprofit only learned about through the donor’s sister. — Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026 The group includes at least 113 former beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status, who were deported mere days after being detained in the United States, according to Haitian government records. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026 About 850 of those had some kind of government or related experience before serving, Meduza said, concluding that most beneficiaries were already part of the ruling class. — ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026 Millions of Social Security beneficiaries will receive September payments. — Mallorie Sullivan, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026 Know More InDrive and Estonian company Bolt were Uber’s main Nigeria competitors and are now the main beneficiaries of the latter’s exit. — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beneficiaries
Noun
  • But half of the claimants dropped their suit, and Levi maintained that they were being threatened or paid off.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Only about a third resulted in discretionary payments, totaling less than 4% of what claimants had sought.
    — Michelle Gumede, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • This new law permanently eliminated the expiration date to allow Holocaust survivors and their heirs to indefinitely pursue the recovery of these works of art.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Two new lawsuits, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, by Jewish heirs or their representatives seek the return of artwork taken by the Nazis during World War II and now held by prominent museums.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 18 Sep. 2026

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“Beneficiaries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beneficiaries. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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