Jean Chatzky

If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of both. This strategy is helpful for occasions that involve a public opening of presents, like a bridal or baby shower. You can give something that can be wrapped and opened, along with a card containing a check.

American Journalist

Maeve Binchy

I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.

Irish Novelist

Michael Spence

Productivity gains are vital to long-term growth because they typically translate into higher incomes, in turn boosting demand. That process takes time, of course - especially if, say, the initial recipients of increased income already have a high savings rate.

American Economist

Ashton Kutcher

My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad.

American Actor

Susie Orbach

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.

English Psychologist

Asa Hutchinson

We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing.

American Lawyer

William Makepeace Thackeray

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

English Novelist

Todd Young

Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.

American Politician

Noam Chomsky

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

American Activist

Bill Gates

India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

American Businessman

Often used to express receiving awards, e-mails, or benefits.

Common Usage

The word 'recipient' carries a neutral tone; it is neither formal nor slang.

Neutral Tone

A recipient is passive, focusing more on the act of receiving than doing.

Active Role

Used in medicine, specifically for patients receiving organs or tissues.

Medical Context

In medical context, implies a life-changing medical procedure for the person.

Life-Changing

It is often more clinical and impersonal, focusing on the medical aspect.

Impersonal Term

Refers to someone who benefits from services like healthcare or free meals.

Service or Product

Often used in the context of social benefits, like welfare or subsidies.

Benefit Context

Underlines passively gaining from a situation, without having to be needy.

Subtle Distinction

 how they were telling inconsistent truths. And we hypothesize based on the tickling study that when one child hits another, they generate the movement command. They predict the sensory consequences and subtract it off. So they actually think they've hit the person less hard than they have -- rather like the tickling. Whereas the passive recipient

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 is more than noticing perfume or cologne. It's able to pick up on natural chemical signals known as pheromones. These not only convey important physical or genetic information about their source but are able to activate a physiological or behavioral response in the recipient.

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 when new immune cells generated by the donated marrow can wipe out cancer cells the recipient’s original immune system couldn’t. This phenomenon can help eradicate stubborn blood cancers. But bone marrow transplants also come with risks, including graft-versus-host disease.

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 anything but when they arrived at the correct recipients they shaved their head again to reveal the message and in peacetime and wore it has always been important to people to be able to communicate freely the Internet has made us more connected to each other than

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 So what we found is if we took the chromosome out of yeast and methylated it, we could then transplant it. Further advances came when the team removed the restriction enzyme genes from the recipient capricolum cell. And once we had done that, now we can take

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 is I won a genetic lottery, and I am the recipient of a legacy, and maybe you're wondering what is a legacy. Well, for the past few centuries we have defined beauty not just as health and youth and symmetry that we're biologically programmed to admire,

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 and risk of stroke, making exercise difficult and dangerous. And since it’s incredibly rare to find a perfect match between donor and recipient, the immune system will also have some response to the new heart.

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 As an non-directed donor you very much have to be prepared to not meet your recipient. I can only imagine the difficulties that she must be going through now. Not only that, but she has a hero in her own life

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 but females are not simply passive recipients of male lust although it looks as though competitive males have sex all their own way they don't

Recipient