Thesaurus results for CLAIMANT

claimant

noun

as in heir

formal a person who believes that he or she has a right to something (such as an amount of money); a person who claims something They are claimants to their father's estate. Claimants will need to fill out the appropriate paperwork. a dispute between two claimants to the throne

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Recent Examples of claimant Two of the civil claimants, whose identities are protected by legal orders, gave evidence during Spacey's criminal trial. —

ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026 Cooper served for years as an expert witness in workers’-comp cases, brought in to assess whether the claimant really had been struck. —

Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026 At The Washington Post—one of the early claimants to journalistic lifestyle development—the Style section, Ben Bradlee’s major structural change, was introduced on January 6, 1969. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Mar. 2026 Some, like Espinoza, continued to give asylum claimants and their lawyers 10 days or more to respond to a motion from DHS to dismiss their cases. —

Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for claimant

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heir

Noun

In the years since, the collection has been subject to numerous claims from alleged heirs, including distant cousins and half-siblings, according to a 2024 report by El País.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 6 Apr. 2026
In 2003, Brit Paul Lister, heir to the Mullard Furniture Industries fortune, acquired 23,000-acre Alladale and converted it into a lodge and wilderness reserve rooted in reforestation and reintroduction of endemic species, such as the water vole and mountain hare.

— Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2026