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 Uncle Sam allows insurers to deny necessary procedures to their beneficiaries. Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026 Starting in July, Medicare began allowing eligible beneficiaries to get obesity drugs for $50 a month. Sydney Lupkin, NPR, 26 Aug. 2026 Under the pilot, many Medicare beneficiaries with a body mass index of 35 or higher — the upper range of obesity — qualify for coverage of one of those drugs, if prescribed. Jackie Fortiér, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026 The state has the nation’s highest proportion of its population living in rural areas and an above-average share of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 25 Aug. 2026 Connecticut’s 750,000 Medicare beneficiaries are nearly evenly split between traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage. Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 25 Aug. 2026 The robotics firm behind China’s famously backflipping humanoids leaped to a remarkable stock market debut Wednesday, with Unitree’s shares closing up 460% as investors rally behind homegrown beneficiaries of the AI boom. Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 19 Aug. 2026 Audits have repeatedly identified payments made on behalf of ineligible beneficiaries, duplicate claims and providers who should never have remained enrolled. Sreedhar Potarazu, Baltimore Sun, 19 Aug. 2026 These bedrock programs are on even shakier fiscal ground without enough workers to support the burgeoning number of beneficiaries. Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
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  • And since January, nearly 900 asylum claimants have been sent back to the US after being deemed ineligible under the Safe Third Country Agreement between the two nations, Cameron said.
    Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The judge has not enforced a cap on the total costs Harry and the other claimants may face.
    Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
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  • In fact, the royal couple’s chateau sits on part of an 87-acre estate bought in the 1890s by the wealthy McCormick family, heirs to the International Harvester fortune.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2026
  • This is the case in Norway and in England, where Princess Anne and her heirs are destined to be at the bottom of the line of succession to the British throne.
    Séraphine Roger, Vanity Fair, 20 Aug. 2026

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“Beneficiaries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beneficiaries. Accessed 29 Aug. 2026.

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