as in inheritors
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 heirs
They're easily valued, divisible and don't necessarily require ongoing maintenance, expenses, or contact with other heirs, experts said.
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Medora Lee, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
Other pet owners who aren’t celebrities have used pet trusts as well, such as Bill Dorris, a Nashville businessman without any human heirs.
—Allison Anna Tait, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
Typically, when a homebuyer passes, their right to the contract passes to their beneficiaries or heirs, who then decide whether or not to proceed to closing.
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
Considering the fact that Louis Vuitton got his start in the luggage and travel business, the Assouline new arrival also sheds light on history’s most important modes of transportation and how the man (along with his heirs) was able to leverage their evolution.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
Angela Weiss | Afp | Getty Images The Lauder family, heirs to the Estee Lauder fortune, have given over $2 million to anti-Mamdani committees.
—Robert Frank, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
Kind Hearts and Coronets, the 1949 feature starring Alec Guinness, centers on the distant relative of a Duke, who plots to inherit the title by murdering eight heirs ahead of him in the line of succession.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
The oldest family companies — some going back forty generations — train their heirs, consciously or not, to expand their capacity for contradiction, tension, and uncertainty.
—Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
That includes Martin’s friends, who see this as the score of a lifetime, his disarmingly relaxed lawyer (Nora Hamzawi), and the American Jew who claims to represent the rightful heirs of Schiele’s treasure.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2025
Medora Lee, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
Other pet owners who aren’t celebrities have used pet trusts as well, such as Bill Dorris, a Nashville businessman without any human heirs.
—Allison Anna Tait, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
Typically, when a homebuyer passes, their right to the contract passes to their beneficiaries or heirs, who then decide whether or not to proceed to closing.
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
Considering the fact that Louis Vuitton got his start in the luggage and travel business, the Assouline new arrival also sheds light on history’s most important modes of transportation and how the man (along with his heirs) was able to leverage their evolution.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
Angela Weiss | Afp | Getty Images The Lauder family, heirs to the Estee Lauder fortune, have given over $2 million to anti-Mamdani committees.
—Robert Frank, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
Kind Hearts and Coronets, the 1949 feature starring Alec Guinness, centers on the distant relative of a Duke, who plots to inherit the title by murdering eight heirs ahead of him in the line of succession.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
The oldest family companies — some going back forty generations — train their heirs, consciously or not, to expand their capacity for contradiction, tension, and uncertainty.
—Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
That includes Martin’s friends, who see this as the score of a lifetime, his disarmingly relaxed lawyer (Nora Hamzawi), and the American Jew who claims to represent the rightful heirs of Schiele’s treasure.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heirs
inheritors
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Over the next 25 years, more than $120 trillion in wealth will be passed down to inheritors, according to Cerulli Associates.—
Hayley Cuccinello,
CNBC,
16 Oct. 2025
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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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“Heirs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heirs. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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