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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
Noun
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Berenberg chemicals analyst Sebastian Bray highlighted fish oil producers as a potential beneficiary.—
Bloomberg,
Fortune,
21 June 2026
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Again, Argentina may have been the beneficiary of its icon taking a step down at club level.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 June 2026
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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Each agency shall assess grant conditions and grantee preferences and ensure grant funds do not promote gender ideology.—
Preston Mizell , Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
7 Apr. 2026
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The foundation staff and board members visited every grantee and talked to their staff about what was working, what wasn’t, and what their goals were for the near future.—
Igor Studenkov,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Lander has argued Goldman, the multimillionaire heir to the Levi jeans fortune, embodies establishment, corporate interests that corrupt the Democratic Party.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
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Scholars largely agree that one wealthy Delft couple, the brewing heir Pieter Claesz van Ruijven and his wife, Maria de Knuijt, were his primary patrons.—
Clare Bucknell,
Harpers Magazine,
23 June 2026
Noun
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The claimants are asking for $10 million against each respondent and said their damages include medical care, psychological and counseling care and pain, suffering and mental anguish.—
Joshua Dougherty,
Idaho Statesman,
22 June 2026
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The dispute also crosses borders, with a British claimant based in Dubai, a German defendant based in France, companies incorporated in Dubai, business plans connected to England, Africa and the Gulf and an alleged repayment obligation that was meant to be settled in bitcoin.—
Susie Violet Ward,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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The former One Direction star's son Bear, 9, is the sole inheritor of $29,007,998 from the singer's estate.—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
22 June 2026
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Among these delusions is the perennial faith that Iranians are potentially ardent converts to American-style freedom, rather than inheritors of an ancient civilization with a trajectory outlined by its own specific history.—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026
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“Devisee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devisee. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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