as in claimant
someone who inherits something when someone dies
He named his only child as the beneficiary on his life insurance policy.
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Recent Examples of beneficiary
Along with the taxpayers, the beneficiaries are the city of Zion, Zion Elementary School District 6, Zion-Benton Township High School District 126, Zion Township, the Zion Park District and the Zion-Benton Public Library.
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Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2025
But to this day, the U.S. remains the largest beneficiary of the shortcut, with most of the traffic through the canal coming from or going to a U.S. port.
—Carla Martinez MacHain, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
Business owners around Glendale’s State Farm Stadium could be the biggest beneficiaries.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 10 Jan. 2025
In a streaming world scale matters, and the services with it are increasingly the beneficiaries as smaller players look to get eyeballs in front of their programming.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2025
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Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2025
But to this day, the U.S. remains the largest beneficiary of the shortcut, with most of the traffic through the canal coming from or going to a U.S. port.
—Carla Martinez MacHain, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
Business owners around Glendale’s State Farm Stadium could be the biggest beneficiaries.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 10 Jan. 2025
In a streaming world scale matters, and the services with it are increasingly the beneficiaries as smaller players look to get eyeballs in front of their programming.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for beneficiary
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beneficiary
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What To Know Social Security claimants in Vermont and Utah could end up with some extra cash in their pockets if two separate proposals become law.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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The fires underscore this failure, but no policy that apportions the state’s supply among those claimants could have saved the communities destroyed by fire over the last week.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2025
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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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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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The Stepping Stone grantees will remain involved with Trellis for a year, while the Milestone grantees receive funding and professional development assistance over the span of two years, during which they are also invited to participate in a retreat.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
15 Jan. 2025
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Other proposals included a term limit for institute directors with a maximum duration of two terms, adding new oversight measures for grantees and adding new restrictions on research grants that present national security risks.—
Nathaniel Weixel,
The Hill,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Beneficiary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beneficiary. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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