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
Bonitzer twists those facts into a story of clashing egos and huge commissions, with André doing his best to broker a sale while respecting the wishes of the paintings’ rightful heirs, as well of those of his money-hungry employer.
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
As Ruby navigates the academic landscape amongst her wealthy peers, she ultimately gets entangled in an unlikely romance with James Beaufort (Damian Hardung), heir to his family’s fortune.
—Maddie Garfinkle, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
That includes Martin’s friends, who see this as the score of a lifetime, his disarmingly relaxed lawyer (Nora Hamzawi), and the American Jew who claims to represent the rightful heirs of Schiele’s treasure.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2025
But my collection intentionally ignored the fraudulent exploits of billionaire heirs, tax dodgers and corporate magnates — defense contracts, government lobbying, bank accounts in Switzerland, shell companies in Panama, citizenship of Antigua and political asylum in London.
—Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
As Ruby navigates the academic landscape amongst her wealthy peers, she ultimately gets entangled in an unlikely romance with James Beaufort (Damian Hardung), heir to his family’s fortune.
—Maddie Garfinkle, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
That includes Martin’s friends, who see this as the score of a lifetime, his disarmingly relaxed lawyer (Nora Hamzawi), and the American Jew who claims to represent the rightful heirs of Schiele’s treasure.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2025
But my collection intentionally ignored the fraudulent exploits of billionaire heirs, tax dodgers and corporate magnates — defense contracts, government lobbying, bank accounts in Switzerland, shell companies in Panama, citizenship of Antigua and political asylum in London.
—Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heir
Noun
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Over the next 25 years, more than $120 trillion in wealth will be passed down to inheritors, according to Cerulli Associates.—
Hayley Cuccinello,
CNBC,
16 Oct. 2025
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Although San Francisco was the inheritor of a distinctly American brand of social liberalism, tech elites were countercultural (in the sense that the more conservative ones cast their politics as a rebellion against the woke mainstream).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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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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Since at least World War I, some legatees of Ivy League privilege have deployed their advantages to oppose injustices and support workers, often against these defectors’ own comfortable families’ and college classmates’ interests, and often at some risk to themselves.—
Jim Sleeper,
The New Republic,
4 Sep. 2023
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Owsley Brown Frazier, a fourth-generation descendant of George Garvin Brown, alone raised more than $500 million in his lifetime.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Oct. 2025
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Haimi was a third generation descendant of Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak's founders and a fourth-generation resident, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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The charitable organization funded by the Johnson & Johnson heiress is known for gifts to education, health and civic projects.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
26 Oct. 2025
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At the time, Louisville didn’t have a rehabilitation center, and so the heiress traveled to New York to receive care at The Rusk Institute.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Heir.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heir. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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