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in·her·it·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. familial, genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmitted, transmissibleadjective

    occurring among members of a family usually by heredity

    "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"

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  1. inheritedadjective

    Obtained via an inheritance

Webster Dictionary

  1. Inherited

    of Inherit

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of inherited in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of inherited in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of inherited in a Sentence

  1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

    Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

  2. Scott Snyder:

    Dialogue, pressure and deterrence, or military measures -- it's really just a question of how the Trump administration is going to shuffle the deck they inherited.

  3. Tom Bond:

    Although the BMI of teenagers is linked to their mothers BMI, this is more likely due to inherited genes and lifestyle factors rather than effects in the womb.

  4. Matthew Ellis:

    If you want to work out how the cancer recoded its genome to become a cancer, you have to be able to compare the cancer genome with the genome you inherited from your mom and your dad.

  5. Modern African Art Giles Peppiatt:

    They inherited it from their father who had business interests in Nigeria.

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    a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
    • A. bias
    • B. equity
    • C. suffering
    • D. substitute

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