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Recent Examples of Synonyms for devisees
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Typically, when a homebuyer passes, their right to the contract passes to their beneficiaries or heirs, who then decide whether or not to proceed to closing.—
Lew Sichelman,
Miami Herald,
31 Oct. 2025 -
Advocates and beneficiaries say halting the food aid would force people to choose between buying groceries and paying other bills.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
31 Oct. 2025
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Angela Weiss | Afp | Getty Images The Lauder family, heirs to the Estee Lauder fortune, have given over $2 million to anti-Mamdani committees.—
Robert Frank,
CNBC,
30 Oct. 2025
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Kind Hearts and Coronets, the 1949 feature starring Alec Guinness, centers on the distant relative of a Duke, who plots to inherit the title by murdering eight heirs ahead of him in the line of succession.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Elizabeth’s determination not to settle the succession gave rise to fierce rivalry between the claimants to the English throne, among them Mary, Queen of Scots and her son James VI; James’s cousin Arbella Stuart; Lady Katherine Grey and her descendants; and Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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In October 2024, there were 43,250,829 claimants.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 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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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
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