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heir apparent

noun

Definition of heir apparent

as in successor

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Recent Examples of heir apparent Teonic replaces Ron Planz, who left to become the heir apparent at Barrington after seven successful seasons at Lake Zurich. — Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026 Sampath’s departure, months after he was handed a multimillion-dollar retention package, left the company without an heir apparent. — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 30 July 2026 Princess Elisabeth, the 24-year-old heir apparent to the Belgian throne, graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School in May, having completed her two-year master’s degree in public policy. — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 27 July 2026 The Rossis want to take down their rivals, the Norths, by targeting their heir apparent, Drayden, who is also Gina’s new boss. — Joe Otterson, Variety, 7 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for heir apparent

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McDermott’s successor, Joe Brady, takes on an immediate Super Bowl mandate for a franchise that’s been so close so often.

— Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
New Athena will be the largest X-ray telescope ever built, a successor to NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, still operational after launching in 1999.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of successor

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Only about a third resulted in discretionary payments, totaling less than 4% of what claimants had sought.

— Michelle Gumede, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
In 2000, when a small tanker carrying no liability insurance and no class certificate sank off Abu Dhabi, the Funds paid claimants in the United Arab Emirates anyway.

— Charles Edward Gehrke, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026

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Sadek, a young Tunisian in Zurich, becomes the lover of a chocolate heir while the world’s cacao is dying.

— Ed Meza, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
In those cases, a house becomes heirs’ property, a somewhat aloof legal term that can have devastating real-world impacts as a common driver of involuntary home loss, legal experts say.

— Mirtha Donastorg, AJC.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of heir

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Twenty years later, a mayoral candidate with the same last name, Abdullah Hammoud, previously a state representative who is not related to Abed Hammoud, was elected, becoming the first Arab American mayor of Dearborn.

— Niraj Warikoo, Freep.com, 12 Sep. 2026
Talks with Hall’s representatives had taken place over an extended period, but getting the left-back to actually put pen to paper on the deal would be consequential.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

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