as in leaving
to give by means of a will
having no heir, he bequeathed his house to his local church
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Recent Examples of bequeathing
Effectively, Newsom’s slow roll protects him from taking any meaningful actions, thus bequeathing reparations to his successor, like his many other unresolved California issues.
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Dan Walters, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
Rewriting society’s decision-making Unlike biased pundits who hem, haw and hedge their bets, Web3 prediction markets cut through noise, bequeathing a signal that feeds into pricing mechanisms themselves.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
Dan Walters, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
Rewriting society’s decision-making Unlike biased pundits who hem, haw and hedge their bets, Web3 prediction markets cut through noise, bequeathing a signal that feeds into pricing mechanisms themselves.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bequeathing
leaving
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Limited backup power could knock out internet access, leaving millions to wait for instant answers.—
Jamie Yuccas,
CBS News,
10 Jan. 2026
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Vatti said Diamantis made an $80,000 payment on the day after signing the retainer and made an additional six payments totalling $105,000 between August 2024 and February 2025, leaving the $65,000 balance.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Bequeathing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bequeathing. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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