as in genetic
genetically passed or capable of being passed from parent to offspring
eye and hair color are hereditary
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Recent Examples of hereditary
Between five and 10% of cases will be considered hereditary, meaning that the cancer was caused by a genetic abnormality that was passed down from the mother or father.
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Joanne Fowler, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
His father, Reinaldo senior, was a nobleman who bore the hereditary 18th-century title Marqués de Torre Casa.
—Air Mail, 29 Mar. 2025
By contrast, the plantation economy relied on rigid racial hierarchies and hereditary enslavement.
—Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2025
His father, Reinaldo senior, was a nobleman who bore the hereditary 18th-century title Marqués de Torre Casa.
—Air Mail, 29 Mar. 2025
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Joanne Fowler, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
His father, Reinaldo senior, was a nobleman who bore the hereditary 18th-century title Marqués de Torre Casa.
—Air Mail, 29 Mar. 2025
By contrast, the plantation economy relied on rigid racial hierarchies and hereditary enslavement.
—Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2025
His father, Reinaldo senior, was a nobleman who bore the hereditary 18th-century title Marqués de Torre Casa.
—Air Mail, 29 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hereditary
Adjective
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These mutations were found to make up 15% of the early genetic alterations that increase colorectal cancer risk.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Every genetic component must be meticulously selected and optimized for function.—
Kristofer Mussar,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Photograph: Courtesy of Sean Hartnoll For decades, physicists and mathematicians have wanted to show that these chaotic dynamics are not an artifact of the simplifying assumption of decoupling, but inherent to black holes.—
Lyndie Chiou,
Wired News,
20 Apr. 2025
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Watch less often and watch more than one network, taking inherent and obvious biases into account.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Quoting the late American historian Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Horn said Jewish culture makes a distinction between history and memory, and Jews are more interested in memory: investing a historical event with eternal, inheritable meaning.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Apr. 2025
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Our vision is that the future of design will have a long lasting inheritable quality.—
Sydney Gore,
Architectural Digest,
6 Feb. 2025
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“Hereditary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hereditary. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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