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as in right
something to which one has a just claim
the promotion is his birthright, after the work he put in
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Recent Examples of birthright
These children will become a generation stripped of their birthright—and with it, their sense of belonging.
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Paola Mendoza, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
While studying, his wife, my grandmother Nubia, gave birth to their first two children, Luisa and my mother, Liliana, granting them citizenship to the United States as their birthright.
—Paola Mendoza, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
In the 1980s, both the United Kingdom and Australia restricted birthright citizenship, and in 2005, New Zealand's parliament passed a law to remove automatic birthright citizenship altogether.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 23 Jan. 2025
Under the Fourteenth Amendment, Estrada said the families of his clients have citizenship through birthright and, further, his clients cannot be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.
—Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
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So, did Alex check all of the items off the list and receive her mystery inheritance?—
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Enpass does not currently offer any password inheritance or other emergency access features, which would facilitate the transfer of your credentials and other valuable information in the event of your untimely demise.—
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Getting this messaging right was crucial for Guster.—
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Often these programs come from good intentions — like the idea that everyone has a right to universal primary healthcare — but in reality they aren’t easily implemented and require a continued negotiation with, and reliance on, foreign aid, foreign donors and NGOs.—
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Poulter plays a radically un-self-aware scion of a billionaire family in A24’s absurdist comedy about wealth and privilege (which also stars Jenna Ortega, Paul Rudd and Téa Leoni).—
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Boasberg scheduled another hearing in the case for April 8 to further discuss the government's argument on its invocation of the privilege.—
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During an hourlong Oval Office appearance, Trump appeared to slap down, contradict or complicate each of Netanyahu’s policy prerogatives.—
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Under the law, however, any attempt by the president to supersede the prerogative of independent agencies violates the separation of powers and congressional authority.—
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“Birthright.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/birthright. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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