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heirs apparent

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plural of heir apparent

as in successors

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Even from her wrought-iron balcony, analysts say, Fernández has held back potential successors to pursue her own comeback.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026
On occasion, overly exuberant executives have set up their successors for failure, by publicly pursuing audacious, sometimes inspiring, but ultimately unachievable goals as a part of their legacy.

— Johannes Teyssen, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026

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But half of the claimants dropped their suit, and Levi maintained that they were being threatened or paid off.

— Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
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

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Kahn’s heirs unloaded the place in 1939, a few years after his death, and it was chopped up over the years to serve as retirement housing for city workers, a military training compound, and a boarding school, per Forbes.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 25 Sep. 2026
But a first-of-its-kind study of hundreds of contested trust cases offers a rare look at the circumstances that can send heirs to court.

— Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026

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While there were humanitarian appeals and evidence that public authorities were seeking alternative accommodation, per the outlet, Duro said Urbagestion’s representatives refused to suspend the eviction.

— Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026
The precise details of what happened there are obscure, and representatives for Beck did not respond to my requests for comment.

— Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026

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