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Recent Examples of devisee
That can obviously set up some interesting, and potentially uncomfortable, situations for both the devisee and your surviving spouse.
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Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2022
When a person dies, his claim passes to his heirs or devisees, subject to the administration of his estate.
—Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2020
Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2022
When a person dies, his claim passes to his heirs or devisees, subject to the administration of his estate.
—Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for devisee
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Critics counter that the biggest beneficiary of this rule change will be the companies that offer them, not plan participants.—
Jill Schlesinger,
Mercury News,
19 Aug. 2025
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The beneficiaries of this trend are tyrants, demagogues, and other power-wielders.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Sometimes, assignees need to do tasks in a certain order, and the completion of some tasks might change what future tasks entail.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
21 July 2025
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Unless prior to the sale the bankruptcy trustee negotiates with the LLC managers to admit the purchaser, the purchaser at the judicial sale will not be anything more than an assignee of the distributional interest as was the result in this case.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Trump and allies, meanwhile, often cast him as legatee of Reagan.—
David Jackson,
USA TODAY,
8 Sep. 2024
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Humans, as legatees of this heritage, learn by seeing and visualizing.—
Stephen Jay Gould,
Discover Magazine,
11 Nov. 2019
Noun
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The foundation is working with over 300 global partners and grantees to advance the research and development of products to improve maternal health, gynecological and menstrual health among other areas of underfunded care around the world.—
Thomas Gallagher,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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As a grantee, we're required to use a housing first approach.—
A Martínez,
NPR,
28 July 2025
Noun
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The heir is reportedly on track to remove Prince Andrew‘s titles after his multiple controversies and ties to Jeffrey Epstein.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
20 Aug. 2025
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Much like the heirs of Arnault and Murdoch, Reiss assumed leadership of the $1.6 billion business decades ahead of the average worker.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
18 Aug. 2025
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Creative work inspired by the case is called upon to make a judgement too, to decide whether or not in the end to portray the claimant as genuine or a fraud.—
Nell Stevens
August 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Aug. 2025
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There are multiple claimants to the Panchen Lama and the Karmapa Lama, the second- and third-highest ranking clerics, respectively, in Tibetan Buddhism.—
Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
2 July 2025
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“Devisee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devisee. Accessed 24 Aug. 2025.
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