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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inherit.

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  • The iPad obviously has huge potential for vertical markets (especially healthcare) and the ease of programming it (presumably) inherits from the iPhone makes it a more nimble platform than anything Windows based.

    Archive 2010-01-01 2010

  • She addresses the standards the work sets for itself or inherits from the previous works: Meyer's prose seldom rises above the serviceable, and the plotting is leaden, but Twilight is really all about unrequited female erotic yearning.

    Ethics and Enthusiasm Hal Duncan 2009

  • The iPad obviously has huge potential for vertical markets (especially healthcare) and the ease of programming it (presumably) inherits from the iPhone makes it a more nimble platform than anything Windows based.

    iPad, therefore i...Read? 2010

  • The cottage Janet inherits is somewhere in the north, her home with her father somewhere in America.

    Seizure « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

  • Locked into the very categories he inherits from the Victorians, Marcus insists that pornography's

    Notes on 'How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision' 2006

  • You may know a Portuguese nobleman by the feeble & blighted body he inherits from the vice of his ancestors. xxxxx vice is now more general — & its consequent disease almost universal.

    Letter 146 1796

  • I mean, potentially, besides the human aspect of who should raise this child, whoever has access to the child, whoever is raising the child has access to whatever moneys the child inherits, which is potentially tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of dollars, correct?

    CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2007 2007

  • Obama "inherits" a Globalistan where teeming masses have discovered, to their grief, that markets do not suppress poverty, unemployment and exploitation.

    Russ Wellen: 'Obama Does Globalistan' 2009

  • TUNGSTEN lets an entity partitions its knowledge stores into a tree; each node of a tree contains some assertions, and also 'inherits' the assertions from its children, allowing an entity to create a knowledge sub-tree for public data to be exposed automatically via CARBON - and then provide additional sub-trees to be merged on top for readers who meet access control requirements.

    Snell-Pym » ARGON 2009

  • What is the significance in Logan’s life of the Miro paintings Logan "inherits" from

    Any Human Heart by William Boyd: Questions 2003

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