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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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After marveling at the park’s mud pots and hot springs, visitors to nearby Drakesbad Guest Ranch can be the direct beneficiaries of that volcanic activity as well, with therapeutic soaks in Drake’s Bath available seasonally, plus massages offered by reservation.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
24 Oct. 2025
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The other key beneficiary has been macro hedge funds, which invest in macroeconomic and geopolitical trends using equities, bonds, currencies, commodities and other assets.—
Hugh Leask,
CNBC,
24 Oct. 2025
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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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Trump and allies, meanwhile, often cast him as legatee of Reagan.—
David Jackson,
USA TODAY,
8 Sep. 2024
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Since at least World War I, some legatees of Ivy League privilege have deployed their advantages to oppose injustices and support workers, often against these defectors’ own comfortable families’ and college classmates’ interests, and often at some risk to themselves.—
Jim Sleeper,
The New Republic,
4 Sep. 2023
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Palfrey noted other government funding cuts, including to the US Agency for International Development and other federal grants, have meant that organizations like the MacArthur Foundation are already racing to disburse money to their grantees to help plug the gaps.—
Vittoria Elliott,
Wired News,
2 Oct. 2025
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Branches was also named a 2024 Citi Community Progress Makers grantee, receiving $1 million over three years.—
Christina Mayo,
Miami Herald,
30 Sep. 2025
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Henry's desire for a male heir -- and a new wife who might provide one -- was the immediate catalyst, but other factors were also at play, involving the English crown's seizure of church assets and the growth of Protestant ideas in England.—
Joshua McElwee,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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Pope Francis died on April 21 at the age of 88, and King Charles’ son and heir, Prince William, attended his funeral.—
Simon Perry,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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Eligible claimants have until July 23, 2026, to submit the forms.—
Paige Moore,
AZCentral.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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Some were filed by individual claimants, others by estates, said Marin County Counsel Brian Washington.—
Cameron Macdonald,
Mercury News,
20 Oct. 2025
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Over the next 25 years, more than $120 trillion in wealth will be passed down to inheritors, according to Cerulli Associates.—
Hayley Cuccinello,
CNBC,
16 Oct. 2025
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Although San Francisco was the inheritor of a distinctly American brand of social liberalism, tech elites were countercultural (in the sense that the more conservative ones cast their politics as a rebellion against the woke mainstream).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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