as in inheritor
a person who has the right to inherit property
upon his death, Mr. Parkworth's property was divided evenly among his heirs, four sons and three daughters
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Recent Examples of heir
Possible heirs to the governorship are in the planning stages, including Lieutenant Gov Jon Husted (R-OH), is widely seen as DeWine’s preferred successor and has taken a position as the front-runner for Vance’s seat in recent days.
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Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Dec. 2024
Andor is a matriarchy, and so the role of heir falls to his younger sister, Elayne.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2024
Its protagonist becomes the heir to House Tyre who, as seen in the trailer, joins Snow at the Wall to keep white walkers at bay.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands Princess Catharina-Amalia is the heir to the Dutch throne and is the eldest of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima’s three daughters.
—Rebecca Cope, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2024
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Trump and allies, meanwhile, often cast him as legatee of Reagan.David Jackson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2024
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Humans, as legatees of this heritage, learn by seeing and visualizing.Stephen Jay Gould, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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Raúl Arias de Para, an ecotourism entrepreneur and a descendant of one of the country’s founding politicians, said talk of American military force stirred memories among his compatriots of the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989.Annie Correal, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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They’re still regularly used by the descendants of the people who built them or family friends: living history inside the borders of a modern construct.Cassidy Randall, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
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By contrast, Astaire plays an airhead dancer in Top Hat, a mistaken identity story co-starring Ginger Rogers, who is a beautiful heiress with no problems in London and Paris.Peter Bart, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
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Looking ahead, the hotel heiress is returning to her roots in a three-part Simple Life spinoff, Paris & Nicole: The Encore, which follows the friends on more absurd adventures (including a sanasa opera, according to The Hollywood Reporter).Toria Sheffield, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Heir.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heir. Accessed 16 Jan. 2025.
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