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coming from the past or left to the future — especially a gift left in a will

I remember the look on Daddy's face the day Mr. Wyatt handed him the keys to the grocery store; Mr. Reuben and all those pictures on his walls, showing years and years of a legacy he's built; Ms.
Angie Thomas -- The Hate U Give

legacy = something passed from one generation to the next

The Legacy of the Amistad Trial can be seen at the New Haven Colony Historical Society in New Haven, Connecticut.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad
Then there were a number of small legacies.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
A house fire consumed all of his Civil War memorabilia, leaving almost no legacy other than his autobiography to set his wartime record straight.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
My body throbbed with the legacy of the border crossing, but the pain could not forestall sleep.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
This was his legacy: nothing is ever escaped.
James Baldwin -- Notes of a Native Son
I hear his grandson continues the legacy.
Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
3): The Legacy of TK: Scorched Earth and Scorched Hearts CHAMBERLAIN-Prom Night is history now.
Stephen King -- Carrie
She had dedicated herself, weeks ago, to making sense of what Inverarity had left behind, never suspecting that the legacy was America.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
Then there were a number of small legacies.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
I asked Joe whether he had heard if any of the other relations had any legacies?
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
She speaks of building a John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, so that people from around the world will know of her husband's legacy.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
They're going to remember me as Piper McLean's father, and that's the best legacy I can imagine.
Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero
If the worst of what she left on Earth was a legacy of inebriated support, it was a good legacy in my book.
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones
Blood was coursing from black, festering slashes across several of the faces and throats, grisly legacies of Max's last encounter with the demon.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
He talked about the reaction of his fellow marines and the legacy of their distrust.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Lucky One
As for the five hundred and eighty thousand francs, they constituted a legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain unknown.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
My legacy" "You were with him?" asked Max.
Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
Corones ... Blanche: Legacies!
Tennessee Williams -- A Streetcar Named Desire
Yet these were the areas Mayor Schmoke knew would determine his legacy of success or failure.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore

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