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passed down
adjective as in hand-me-down
adjective as in inherited
Strong match
adjective as in used
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Ms Burrough's condition had a 50% risk of being passed down to any children, and some babies are so profoundly affected that they do not survive.
“My grandmother was passionate about history and museums, so my family passed down a few things of hers that were in storage,” she says.
In my last few days at the NIH, I was also told, in a directive passed down from a superior, that we were no longer allowed to use terms like health equity.
Kate Hudson stars as Isla Gordon, who, with two brothers and a half brother, is part owner of the franchise, passed down from their late father, a “creep” under whose stewardship the team nevertheless won a lot of trophies.
It had been passed down to musicians over two centuries before it was purchased by a businessman in Germany.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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