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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
When a person dies, his claim passes to his heirs or devisees, subject to the administration of his estate.
—Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2020
Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2022
When a person dies, his claim passes to his heirs or devisees, subject to the administration of his estate.
—Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for devisee
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Research into beneficiaries comes amid reports that TikTok is preparing to shutter its app in the U.S. on Jan.19 in response to a federal ban slated to go into effect.Samantha Subin, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025
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Both daughters are beneficiaries of The Tony Bennett 1994 Family Trust, as is their brother Dae, while Danny is sole trustee.Rachel DeSantis, People.com, 15 Jan. 2025
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After all, Qualcomm recently surpassed IBM as the number-two patent assignee in the U.S..Anshel Sag, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
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The data looks at the assignees for both regular utility and design patents and was limited to assignees that received at least 10 patents within the year.al, al, 22 June 2023
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Trump and allies, meanwhile, often cast him as legatee of Reagan.David Jackson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2024
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Humans, as legatees of this heritage, learn by seeing and visualizing.Stephen Jay Gould, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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The monkey-breeding center is a U.S. Public Health Service grantee, through the National Institutes of Health.Kunle Falayi, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
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Some state-level grantees had not tracked what local police and prosecutors did with DNA matches.Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024
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Miami deciding to call attention to the NFL’s longest current playoff-victory drought would be akin to Richard Nixon’s heirs staging an annual Watergate parade.Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
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Season two hones in on the nature-versus-nurture tension between the innies and the outies, most poignantly through office rebel Helly (Britt Lower), who discovered at the end of season one that her outie is Helena Eagan, heir to the company that she’s dedicated her life to railing against.Abby Monteil, Them, 15 Jan. 2025
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What to Know Due to the huge number of recipients, not every claimant gets their money on the same date each month.Aliss Higham, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
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Two of the claimants are from Pennsylvania, two are from Massachusetts, and one is from Florida.Andi Shae Napier, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Devisee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devisee. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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