as in genetic
genetically passed or capable of being passed from parent to offspring heritable characteristics like skin and eye and hair color

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Recent Examples of heritable In fact, researchers say, autism is between 60 and 90 percent heritable. Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2025 Endometriosis is heritable, and both my mom and grandma had it. Sarah Bence, Health, 4 Mar. 2025 In an old but often-cited Danish study on twins, researchers found that about 25 percent of longevity was heritable—in other words, predetermined by your genes. Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2025 Endometriosis is heritable, and both my mom and grandma had it. Sarah Bence, Health, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for heritable
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Adjective
  • Shorter telomeres are associated with genetic instability.
    Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025
  • It is set to be acquired by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology firm focused on using genetic data to develop new drugs.
    Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • The extravagant, dissolute life Prince Albert II of Monaco continues to bolster arguments of those who think that hereditary monarchies should not be allowed to exist in the 21st century.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 18 June 2025
  • In a world of hereditary monarchies, there was a very real possibility at the time of America’s founding that whoever gained power would refuse to hand it over when the time came.
    Frederic J. Fransen, Twin Cities, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • Quoting the late American historian Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Horn said Jewish culture makes a distinction between history and memory, and Jews are more interested in memory: investing a historical event with eternal, inheritable meaning.
    Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Our vision is that the future of design will have a long lasting inheritable quality.
    Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Performance Trade-Offs: Real-time applications face inherent constraints due to the computational overhead of symbolic reasoning, knowledge graph traversal and the general reduction in inference speeds compared to pure neural approaches.
    Anuradha Weeraman, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • The fibers’ inherent comfort also resonates with lifestyle brands like Ugg.
    SJ Studio, Sourcing Journal, 30 June 2025

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“Heritable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heritable. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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