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beneficiary

noun

Definition of beneficiary

as in claimant

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 beneficiary In this scenario, the AI platforms rather than the studios would be the beneficiaries. — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 Nearly all Medicare beneficiaries have a primary care provider (PCP). — Christopher P. Childers, STAT, 10 July 2026 Bipartisan oversight and means testing for higher income beneficiaries can also help extend solvency without burdening working families. — Brent Andersen, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2026 The show is now partly funded by the Canada Media Fund, which requires beneficiaries to be Canadian productions. — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 8 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for beneficiary

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Now, the claimants may be on the hook to pay the legal costs, which ANL has said climbed to $67 million.

— Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 9 July 2026
On July 7, the Duke of Sussex and a fellow claimant, Baroness Doreen Lawrence, issued a scathing statement following a judge’s dismissal of their case against the Daily Mail’s publisher, Associated Newspapers Limited, which was filed in 2022.

— Hannah Malach, InStyle, 7 July 2026

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In 2022, there was much focus on the symbolism of a meeting between Messi and Mbappe, seemingly the heir to the Argentinian’s throne.

— Oliver Kay, New York Times, 19 July 2026
Rob Walton, the Walmart heir, sits courtside at Broncos games and holds a piece of the Diamondbacks.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 17 July 2026

Definition of heir

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Agents in Jira are generally available, allowing teams to assign work items to AI agents using the same interface as for human assignees, with full audit logging designed for compliance teams.

— Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 29 May 2026
To assign a task, simply tick a box, add a description, choose assignees, and input an optional due date.

— Robert Anderson, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026

Definition of assignee

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And Alok Vaid-Menon, a comedian and Pluralist Visionaries grantee using a growing platform to put trans-liberatory ideas at the center of the conversation.

— Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Dollar amounts are no specified but grantees will use the money for general unrestricted operating expenses.

— Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 4 June 2026

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