Thesaurus results for DEVISEE

devisee

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as in beneficiary

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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. — Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2022

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While no awards have been publicly announced, reports from the Journal and the New York Times say one of the biggest beneficiaries would be Westinghouse, which designs nuclear reactors sold overseas.

— Chad de Guzman, Time, 23 July 2026
Independent refiners with no upstream oil production are the clearest beneficiaries.

— Garth Friesen, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

Definition of beneficiary

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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

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The old immigrants are likely to remain—in the manner of the occasional Wasp legatee (Wagner, Lindsay) who poked in during the buoyant sixties—more visitors to wars over civic power than victors in them.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
Trump and allies, meanwhile, often cast him as legatee of Reagan.

— David Jackson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2024

Definition of legatee

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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

Definition of grantee

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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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The hope behind the request was that the proud inheritor of the Byzantine empire could escape its associations with a pretty derpy American bird.

— Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026
Another challenge that may result is leaving large tax liabilities for future generations, particularly if the inheritors receive such funds during their peak earning years.

— Monish Verma, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

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