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heirs apparent

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plural of heir apparent

as in successors

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The threshold comes when a system can create a successor capable of creating successors of its own.

— Regan Peng, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Neither Washington nor Beijing benefits from losing control of systems capable of autonomous replication, accelerating the development of their own successors, evading oversight, or enabling catastrophic biological or cyber harm.

— Shlomit Wagman, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026

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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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This new law permanently eliminated the expiration date to allow Holocaust survivors and their heirs to indefinitely pursue the recovery of these works of art.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
Two new lawsuits, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, by Jewish heirs or their representatives seek the return of artwork taken by the Nazis during World War II and now held by prominent museums.

— News Desk, Artforum, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of heirs

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Call your federal and local representatives and ask them to support the above bills and prioritize legislation that funds research around perimenopause and menopause.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 17 Sep. 2026
CreativeFuture, the nonprofit advocating for creative copyright protections, was doing their own work, as were representatives from the TV Academy.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026

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