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Conchita is Lady Brightlingsea, heroine to a wave of young American heiresses.—
Billie Melissa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 July 2025 -
This is all thanks to Jane Blaffer Owen an oil heiress from Houston (her father was one of the founders of a company that’s now ExxonMobil and her grandfather established the company that ultimately became Texaco), whose husband, Kenneth Dale Owen was a descendent of New Harmony’s founders.—
Rima Suqi,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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Trump has refrained from endorsing a successor and declined to endorse Vice President JD Vance for the role in February.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
5 Aug. 2025
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From the current queen to her future successor, there are no doubt countless lessons for Queen Letizia to teach Princess Leonor.—
Ben Jureidini,
Glamour,
5 Aug. 2025
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Brown arrived in Detroit for the fourth stop on the North American leg of his Breezy Bowl XX tour, which marks 20 years since Brown broke big as a teen R&B sensation — a supremely skilled singer and dancer touted then by some as a Michael Jackson heir apparent.—
Brian McCollum,
Freep.com,
10 Aug. 2025
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Student protesters pushing Chinese political leaders to adopt liberal reforms found tacit support from Deng’s second heir apparent, Zhao Ziyang, until Deng pushed him aside and placed him under house arrest.—
TYLER JOST,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Aug. 2025
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That can obviously set up some interesting, and potentially uncomfortable, situations for both the devisee and your surviving spouse.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
20 Feb. 2022
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When a person dies, his claim passes to his heirs or devisees, subject to the administration of his estate.—
Virginia Hammerle,
Dallas News,
26 Jan. 2020
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“Coheir.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coheir. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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