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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
Noun
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The deed names a beneficiary to receive title after the owner passes away.—
Bob Carlson,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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One suit in Boston represents Haitian and Venezuelan TPS beneficiaries.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
15 Mar. 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.—
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22 June 2023
Noun
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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
Noun
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The grantee’s project was given less than an hour to submit outstanding expenses before the shutdown.—
Hannah Allam,
ProPublica,
20 Mar. 2025
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The individual grantees might have to sue about that.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Following the death of Queen Elizabeth, King Charles instead made his son and heir the Colonel of the Welsh Guards, a role coinciding with William's new title as the Prince of Wales.—
Simon Perry,
People.com,
17 Mar. 2025
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Of course, financial complications can lead to other complications — family fights, disgruntled heirs and so on.—
Liz Weston,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile, from April 2026, the health or disability components of Universal Credit will be frozen for existing claimants until 2029/30 and virtually halved for new claimants.—
Gus Alexiou,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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What To Know This week, Social Security payments will be made on Wednesday, March 19, and are for those claimants who have a birthday that falls between the 11th and 20th of any calendar month.—
Aliss Higham,
Newsweek,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Devisee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devisee. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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