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coheiress

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Hilton, the hotel heiress and media personality, spent almost a year at the school in the late 1990s.

— Kathy McCormack, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
This historic site on the Indian River was once the home of Coca-Cola heiress Anne Bates Leach.

— Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 28 June 2026

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Newsom pledged that his final budget would not only close the chronic deficit but leave his successor — presumably Xavier Becerra — with a healthy fiscal situation.

— Dan Walters, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
Even if the next emanation is discovered within months, Tibetans face a perhaps two-decade interregnum while his successor comes of age.

— Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026

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Messi, ever the showman, scored a stunning hat trick—his first ever in a World Cup—for the 3–0 win, and was subbed out in the seventy-ninth minute for Nico Paz (suggested by some to be his heir apparent), to a standing ovation.

— Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 27 June 2026
An heir apparent to Draymond Green.

— Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 24 June 2026

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