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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 Millions of Social Security beneficiaries will receive September payments. — Mallorie Sullivan, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026 Once the policy is in place, it is typically assigned in favor of the financing bank, so the bank becomes the beneficiary if a claim ever needs to be made. — Amit Singhania, Forbes.com, 14 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 The other beneficiary here is YouTube, Barker’s training ground, as the platform has now become an urgent space for legacy studios and streamers to find emerging talent. — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for beneficiary

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Under the general rule in the current version of the statute, a negligence claimant found more than 50% at fault for their own harm may be barred from recovering damages, while a lower percentage reduces recoverable damages proportionally.

— Kaitlyn Gomez, Miami Herald, 15 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

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Sadek, a young Tunisian in Zurich, becomes the lover of a chocolate heir while the world’s cacao is dying.

— Ed Meza, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
In those cases, a house becomes heirs’ property, a somewhat aloof legal term that can have devastating real-world impacts as a common driver of involuntary home loss, legal experts say.

— Mirtha Donastorg, AJC.com, 4 Sep. 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

Noun

Michal Ruprecht spent a month reporting in Uganda as a Stanford Global Health Media Fellow and Pulitzer Center grantee.

— Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 13 Aug. 2026
But once the extra antiviolence dollars were approved, Novelo said CDPH allocated more of the additional funds to the other grantee, Metropolitan Family Services.

— Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2026

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