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  • Her parents left her a small legacy.
    legacy = money left after their death
  • In no time the building is in flames. ... 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;  (source)
    legacy = something built with a long-lasting impact
  • In both places, young men go through a daily struggle trying to navigate their way through deadly streets, poverty, and the twin legacies of exclusion and low expectations.  (source)
    legacies = things left from the past
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  • I wanted to give our children a legacy of freedom, not a legacy of fear.  (source)
    legacy = something passed from one generation to the next
  • Your Legacies are going to appear any day now.  (source)
    Legacies = gifts
  • Her intimacy there had made him seriously determine on her being handsomely legacied hereafter; and to speak of her therefore as the almost acknowledged future heiress of Fullerton naturally followed.†  (source)
    legacied = given from the past
  • Her genius idea, a legacy that continues to this day, is what Fitzy refers to as "The Divorce."  (source)
    legacy = something coming from the past
  • Can we learn something about why people succeed and how to make people better at what they do by taking cultural legacies seriously?  (source)
    legacies = things passed from one generation to the next
  • If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?  (source)
    legacy = something left behind
  • Plus, a lot of the campers are legacies—second or third generation.  (source)
    legacies = people whose parents or grandparents preceded them in the organization
  • This was a minor setback, he'd give them that, but his work would live on. His legacy. His life.  (source)
    legacy = something left behind after one is gone
  • They had free, democratic societies, and they left behind rich cultural legacies.†  (source)
  • The legacy God intended each of us to leave has to do with the impact our lives have had on the lives of others whom He calls us to serve.  (source)
    legacy = gift left after death
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