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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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And in Congress, Democratic lawmakers representing the party’s progressive and centrist wings alike have cast Musk as the chief architect, executor and beneficiary of the new administration, portraying him as an unelected oligarch who is steamrolling the Constitution and stealing from taxpayers.—
Lisa Lerer,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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With nearly 300,000 beneficiaries, Florida is the state with the largest population of TPS holders.—
Verónica Egui Brito,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 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
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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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Lawmakers are hearing pleas from state officials and other federal grantees about the Trump administration's ongoing funding freeze.—
Daniel Moore,
Axios,
4 Feb. 2025
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The Darkroom features three HBF grantees: Indian director Bikas Ranjan Mishra’s Bayaan and the Georgian projects Tear Gas and Wild Dogs Don’t Bite.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
28 Jan. 2025
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McCaskey, the originally reluctant heir to the NFL franchise that her father, George Halas, founded in 1920, died Thursday.—
Caroline Kubzansky,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Feb. 2025
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As Ivan, the weed-smoking heir to a Russian fortune, Eydelshteyn certainly has a lot of fun.—
Antonia Blyth,
Deadline,
4 Feb. 2025
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Social Security benefits are paid to more than 70 million Americans on a monthly basis, and help form the bedrock of income for many retirees, survivors of deceased claimants and disabled people.—
Hannah Parry,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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The Duke — alongside other claimants — won that case and damages of more than $170,000.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Devisee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devisee. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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