devisees

plural of devisee

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Noun
  • Only 27% of these future beneficiaries — primarily widows and children — plan to keep their benefactor’s wealth advisor, per Cerulli’s survey of investors with at least $250,000 in financial assets.
    Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The ongoing government shutdown is delaying the announcement of the annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for tens of millions of beneficiaries.
    Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That can force heirs to quickly pay off the loan, refinance or sell the house.
    Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Scammers often target multiple heirs, seeking the most vulnerable respondent.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This is challenging, in part because loneliness is such a familiar theme in the 21st-century Indian American novel (blame Jhumpa Lahiri and her literary inheritors).
    Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The very idea of an alliance will be strange and scary to the inheritors of the Non-Aligned Movement, which India helped spearhead during the Cold War.
    KURT M. CAMPBELL, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Disingenuous advertising can lure in claimants with questionable or exaggerated claims, flooding the courts with frivolous cases.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The Detroit Free Press put together a list of questions and answers that might help claimants to understand what their case status is and what to do next.
    Adrienne Roberts, Freep.com, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Devisees.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devisees. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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