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
Elisabeth is the heir to the Belgian throne, following her father, King Philippe.
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Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
And with the help of generative AI (the heir of Guilford’s two computational protocols), American soldiers would make all the parts of tomorrow that flowed from creativity.
—Angus Fletcher, Big Think, 29 Sep. 2025
Leo Dell’Orco, the designer’s right-hand man for years and one of his main heirs who now takes the design reins of the brand, his niece Silvana Armani, and his nephew Andrea Camerana received the award from the hands of Anna Wintour.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2025
Lavrov opened with sweeping historical references to World War II, positioning Russia as the heir to the Soviet Union’s role in defeating Nazism and defending global sovereignty.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
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Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
And with the help of generative AI (the heir of Guilford’s two computational protocols), American soldiers would make all the parts of tomorrow that flowed from creativity.
—Angus Fletcher, Big Think, 29 Sep. 2025
Leo Dell’Orco, the designer’s right-hand man for years and one of his main heirs who now takes the design reins of the brand, his niece Silvana Armani, and his nephew Andrea Camerana received the award from the hands of Anna Wintour.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2025
Lavrov opened with sweeping historical references to World War II, positioning Russia as the heir to the Soviet Union’s role in defeating Nazism and defending global sovereignty.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heir
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This is challenging, in part because loneliness is such a familiar theme in the 21st-century Indian American novel (blame Jhumpa Lahiri and her literary inheritors).—
Sanjena Sathian,
Vulture,
23 Sep. 2025
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Though the gardens honor the full Calder lineage, their focus is on the twentieth-century inheritor.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 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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Lauren Denham is a Native-Alaskan descendant and political science major who graduated from TCU in 2023.—
Hollace Ava Weiner,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Oct. 2025
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Lowell, the Guinness descendant who dreamt up the idea for the series, was inspired to pursue the project after watching (and being disappointed by) the popular historical drama, Downton Abbey.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep. 2025
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Lady Margaret Hoby was a landowner and heiress who, during the early 1600s, was running her estate and the family business in Yorkshire in the frequent absence of her husband on parish and judicial business.—
Phillipa Gregory,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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Huppert delivers a commanding performance as Marianne Farrère, a wealthy heiress whose extravagant gifts to a much younger artist ignite public outrage.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Heir.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heir. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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