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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
Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for devisee
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Social Security benefits are typically disbursed to its nearly 74 million beneficiaries on Wednesdays, but your exact payment date depends on your birthdate.—
Laura Daniella Sepulveda,
AZCentral.com,
28 Feb. 2026
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What does accountability look like when the biggest financial beneficiaries stay invisible?—
Matt Parr,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Feb. 2026
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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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As a mere assignee of Addington's interest, BAL did not gain Addington's governance rights.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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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
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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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The announcement will be a key moment of the festival, and attendees are invited to join the celebration and discover this year’s grantee in person.—
PhotoVogue,
Vogue,
23 Feb. 2026
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Because Scott’s gifts are unrestricted—meaning the donation can be used at the discretion of the grantee—there’s no concrete evidence that Scott’s 2021 or 2025 donations went directly to SJP or AMP.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
6 Jan. 2026
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Toberoff says he's never reneged on a deal and sees his work as merely enforcing rights Congress gave authors and their heirs under the copyright act.—
Tom Dotan,
Vanity Fair,
23 Feb. 2026
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The triumphant moment is undercut with a brief ending scene involving Prince Maekar (Sam Spruell), Egg's dad and the new heir to the Iron Throne following the death of Baelor.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Feb. 2026
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Over the course of a single day, multiple cases unfold as claimants and defendants face off with the support of barristers and independent arbitrators.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
22 Feb. 2026
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About 76 of those claimants allege abuses from the 1940s through 1970s, while an additional 45 to 50 allege abuses in the 1980s.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2026
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After the world’s nuclear annihilation, the Enclave emerged from the ash and embers claiming to be the true inheritor of America.—
Jack King,
Vulture,
14 Jan. 2026
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The initiative positions Arkansas as the sole inheritor and national administrator of the fund.—
Sydney Sasser,
Arkansas Online,
19 Dec. 2025
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“Devisee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devisee. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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