inheritor

as in heir
a person who has the right to inherit property someday that little boy will become the inheritor of one of the largest private fortunes in the country

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Recent Examples of inheritor 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 Although San Francisco was the inheritor of a distinctly American brand of social liberalism, tech elites were countercultural (in the sense that the more conservative ones cast their politics as a rebellion against the woke mainstream). Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025 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 Though the gardens honor the full Calder lineage, their focus is on the twentieth-century inheritor. Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025 The very idea of an alliance will be strange and scary to the inheritors of the Non-Aligned Movement, which India helped spearhead during the Cold War. Kurt M. Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2025
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heir
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  • Henry's desire for a male heir -- and a new wife who might provide one -- was the immediate catalyst, but other factors were also at play, involving the English crown's seizure of church assets and the growth of Protestant ideas in England.
    Joshua McElwee, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Pope Francis died on April 21 at the age of 88, and King Charles’ son and heir, Prince William, attended his funeral.
    Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Inheritor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inheritor. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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