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Recent Examples of bequeath
Still, with the Conservatives leading the Liberals by 25 percentage points in recent surveys, the path that Mr. Trudeau bequeaths his successor is likely to be treacherous.
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Matina Stevis-Gridneff, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
But it was discovered this year after an Austrian citizen was bequeathed it by a relative who had bought it in 1960.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 29 Dec. 2024
Boy Willie and Berniece clash over an upright piano bequeathed by an ancestor who had carved the likenesses of various family members into the instrument’s wooden surface, creating a unique — talismanic — work of art.
—Armond White, National Review, 27 Dec. 2024
The home is the site of an impressive French Impressionist collection bequeathed to Memphians by philanthropists Margaret Oates Dixon and Hugo Norton Dixon.
—Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2024
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Matina Stevis-Gridneff, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
But it was discovered this year after an Austrian citizen was bequeathed it by a relative who had bought it in 1960.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 29 Dec. 2024
Boy Willie and Berniece clash over an upright piano bequeathed by an ancestor who had carved the likenesses of various family members into the instrument’s wooden surface, creating a unique — talismanic — work of art.
—Armond White, National Review, 27 Dec. 2024
The home is the site of an impressive French Impressionist collection bequeathed to Memphians by philanthropists Margaret Oates Dixon and Hugo Norton Dixon.
—Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2024
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