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
Adrenal tumors or congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), a group of hereditary adrenal gland disorders, can cause these glands to make too many androgens (male hormones), leading to high testosterone.1
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Brandi Jones, Health, 6 June 2025
This hereditary disease causes your body to absorb too much iron from your diet.
—Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 24 May 2025
One of the Clarksons likely received the Magna Carta at some point in the early 1800s from William Lowther, the hereditary lord of Appleby manor.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 May 2025
By Jennie Erin Smith His story—part clinical, part familial—forms the core of Valley of Forgetting, Jennie Erin Smith’s book on memory, medicine, and hereditary fate in rural Colombia.
—Marion Renault, The Atlantic, 13 May 2025
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Brandi Jones, Health, 6 June 2025
This hereditary disease causes your body to absorb too much iron from your diet.
—Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 24 May 2025
One of the Clarksons likely received the Magna Carta at some point in the early 1800s from William Lowther, the hereditary lord of Appleby manor.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 May 2025
By Jennie Erin Smith His story—part clinical, part familial—forms the core of Valley of Forgetting, Jennie Erin Smith’s book on memory, medicine, and hereditary fate in rural Colombia.
—Marion Renault, The Atlantic, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hereditary
Adjective
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While scientists have suspected these connections, before now the only evidence for them was archaeological, rather than genetic.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
2 July 2025
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Shorter telomeres are associated with genetic instability.—
Ian Randall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 July 2025
Adjective
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Processing cheap rare earth is a nasty business using dangerous acid precursors that come with inherent risks, which bump up the prices of processing in the environmentally conscious West.—
Clem Chambers,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Justin brings an inherent understanding of my company that is essential for its growth.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
14 July 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 18 Jul. 2025.
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