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Recent Examples of heiress
Pamela Sue Martin played Fallon Carrington, the heiress daughter of Blake Carrington and Alexis Colby, for the first four seasons of Dynasty.
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Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
Released in 1958, Attack told of a wealthy heiress, fresh from a stint at a mental institution, who is turned into a giantess and then deals with her philandering husband and his no-good, money-grubbing floozy.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 9 Jan. 2026
The book follows Alice Scott and Hayden Anderson, two writers competing to ink the biography of an elusive former celebrity heiress, Margaret Ives.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
The Granary was among the landmarks for which Jane Blaffer Owen, an oil heiress who married one of Owen's descendants, spearheaded restoration.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 30 Dec. 2025
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Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
Released in 1958, Attack told of a wealthy heiress, fresh from a stint at a mental institution, who is turned into a giantess and then deals with her philandering husband and his no-good, money-grubbing floozy.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 9 Jan. 2026
The book follows Alice Scott and Hayden Anderson, two writers competing to ink the biography of an elusive former celebrity heiress, Margaret Ives.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
The Granary was among the landmarks for which Jane Blaffer Owen, an oil heiress who married one of Owen's descendants, spearheaded restoration.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 30 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heiress
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Trump could name Powell’s successor as soon as this week.—
Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
28 Jan. 2026
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His successor, Jacques Chirac, briefly abolished it in 1986, but Mitterrand expeditiously revived it in 1989 upon his return to office.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Blue Hummingbird Woman was an early beneficiary of the Grow Downtown program, a collaboration between the Downtown Alliance and building owners to place small businesses in vacant storefronts for six months with free rent.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
11 Jan. 2026
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The other primary beneficiary in the Citgo sale is oil giant ConocoPhillips, which holds more than half of the creditors’ roughly $20 billion in claims.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
9 Jan. 2026
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Persico, 62, was the heir apparent to the crime family in 2023 when he was sentenced to five years behind bars for a labor union extortion plot.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
22 Jan. 2026
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For much of the past year, National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett appeared to be the natural heir apparent.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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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Sometimes, assignees need to do tasks in a certain order, and the completion of some tasks might change what future tasks entail.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
21 July 2025
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As a mere assignee of Addington's interest, BAL did not gain Addington's governance rights.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Prince Baelor Targaryen, King Daeron’s eldest son and heir to the Iron Throne, is among the Targaryens who arrive in Ashford in Episode 2.—
Tracy Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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The heir to the throne, Princess Amalia, wore it for the first time on the occasion of the state visit of the Sultan of Oman, a reminder that the item would pass, eventually, to the future queen.—
Marta Martínez Tato,
Vanity Fair,
25 Jan. 2026
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Because Scott’s gifts are unrestricted—meaning the donation can be used at the discretion of the grantee—there’s no concrete evidence that Scott’s 2021 or 2025 donations went directly to SJP or AMP.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
6 Jan. 2026
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Federal appeals court judges on Monday upheld a lower court’s ruling preventing the National Institutes of Health from cutting billions of dollars in support for research overhead at universities, academic medical centers, and other grantee institutions.—
Jonathan Wosen,
STAT,
5 Jan. 2026
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“Heiress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heiress. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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